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• Crew

  ·noun The Manx shearwater. II. Crew ·Impf of <<Crow>>. III. Crew ·- imp. of <<Crow>>. IV. Crew ·n...

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• crew

  A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three o...

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• crew

  Comprehends every officer and man on board ship, borne as complement on the books. There are in ship...

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• Captain

  ·adj Chief; superior. II. Captain ·noun A head, or chief officer. III. Captain ·noun A military le...

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• Captain

  1) Heb. sar (1 Sam. 22:2; 2 Sam. 23:19). Rendered "chief," Gen. 40:2; 41:9; rendered also "prince," ...

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• captain

  Led captain; an humble dependant in a great family, who for a precarious subsistence, and distant ho...

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• captain

  I. This title is said to be derived from the eastern military magistrate katapan, meaning "over ev...

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• Captain

  As a purely military title, "captain" answers to sar in the Hebrew army and tribune in the Roman. T...

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• the canting crew

  Thieves, beggars, and gypsies, or any others using the canting lingo. See lingo. ...

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• boat's crew

  The men appointed as the crew of any particular boat, as the barge's crew, cutter's crew, &c. ...

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• carpenter's crew

  Consists of a portion of the crew, provided for ship-carpentry and ship-building. In ships of war th...

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• Post-captain

  ·noun A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the B...

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• Sea captain

  ·- The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea. ...

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• captain lieutenant

  Meat between veal and beef, the flesh of an old calf; a military simile, drawn from the officer of t...

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• captain podd

  A celebrated master of a puppet-shew, in Ben Johnson's time, whose name became a common one to signi...

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• captain queernabs

  A shabby ill-dressed fellow. ...

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• captain sharp

  A cheating bully, or one in a set of gamblers, whose office is to bully any pigeon, who, suspecting ...

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• captain tom

  The leader of a mob; also the mob itself. ...

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• Captain Cook

  or Cooker n. NewZealand colonists' slang. First applied to the wild pigs ofNew Zealand, supposed t...

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• boatswain-captain

  An epithet given by certain popinjays in the service to such of their betters as fully understand th...

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• captain-general

  The highest army rank. ...

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• job captain

  One who gets a temporary appointment to a ship, whose regular commander is a member of parliament, &...

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• post-captain

  Formerly a captain of three years' standing, now simply captain, but equal to colonel in the army, b...

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• sailing captain

  An officer in some navies, whose duties are similar to those of our masters in the royal navy. ...

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• second-captain

  Commanders under captains in the navy, of late. ...

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• staff-captain

  A designation conferred in 1863 upon masters of the fleet. ...

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• cod-fisher's crew

  The crew of a banker, or fishing-vessel, which anchors in 60 or 70 fathoms on the Great Bank of Newf...

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• captain of the fleet

  Is a temporary admiralty appointment; he is entitled to be considered as a flag-officer, and to a sh...

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• captain of the head

  Not a recognized rating, but an ordinary man appointed to attend to the swabs, and to keep the ship'...

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• captain of the hold

  The last of the captains in rank, as a first-class petty officer. ...

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• captain of the port

  The captain of the port is probably better explained by referring to that situation at Gibraltar. He...

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• incompetency, or insufficiency, of a merchantman's crew

  A bar to any claim on warrantry; as it is an implied condition in the sea-worthiness of a ship, that...

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• insufficiency of a merchantman's crew

  This bars the owner's claim on the sea-worthy warrant. (See incompetency of a merchantman's crew.) ...

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• captain of a merchant ship

  Is a certificated officer in the mercantile marine, intrusted with the entire charge of a ship, both...

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• captain of a ship of war

  Is the commanding officer; as well the post-captain (a title now disused) as those whose proper titl...

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