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crowd n Cp DAE ~ 'set, clique, or "ring" ' (1840-); DA b [party
of cowboys]. See also CREW.
1 An organized, integrated
group of people, esp a fishing or sealing crew.
1895 GRENFELL 59
Some Newfoundland planters and agents provide boarded huts for their 'crowd'. . . Each
'crew' has a fish stage, alongside which the fish are brought in the boats. 1924 ENGLAND
240 'Master watches, call up ahl y'r crowds. Get ahl y'r men ready to go away. Take
plenty flags. Evvery man that can drag a seal, get ready! Evvery man out o' them
castles.' [1961] 1965 PEACOCK (ed) i, 114 "A Crowd of Bold Sharemen": 'You'll go home
again, sir, but that's not the thing, / There's seven of our boys you brought down here
this spring, / You said you were going fishing in the Straits of Belle Isle, / And if you
don't do it we'll have you on trial' [Said] a crowd of bold sharemen. T
141/66-652 I said, 'Billy got his crowd?' 'Yes, he got men enough, but he got
n'ar a splitter. He's leaving a berth for a splitter.' T 187/90-65 [When the house is to
be moved] the man that owns the house he'd have to go around then and look for a crowd.
1966 FARIS 138 Only the actual male fishing crew members of the effective 'crowd' share
the voyage, although the share of each will be largely determined by the number of
persons he contributes to the 'shore crowd,' that is, those helping to 'put away the
fish'-sons, daughters, wife or brothers. 1967 FIRESTONE 45 When the brothers' children
grow up there will in most cases be a split and each brother will fish with his sons.
This group is referred to as a crowd or crew. 1979 Salt Water, Fresh
Water 319 I could have went into St Anthony ' but somehow I was young and wanted to
get home; and I had this crowd [of stationers] aboard.
2
All or most of the people (of another community or group).
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141/2-652 Nobody sove [= saved] the crowd. 1966 FARIS 86 'Crowd' is an
extremely flexible term [and can mean] a group of young children playing together, a
group of people at a 'time,' a group of men gathered to talk, move a boat or watch
something on the sea, or one entire half of the community (as in the 'Dog Cove crowd' or
the 'Upper Harbour crowd'). 1975 BUTLER 39 There was about twenty-five men in on the
point watchin' [the tight squeeze]... But anyway, they were a pretty good crowd in
Merasheen ... the women come down when they found out the trouble. 1977 Inuit Land Use
335 And over around Flowers Bay, the other crowd were trapping all this area.
3 Members of a family; relatives.
[1918-19] GORDON 34 Called in at [Burnt] Harbor to visit the
Lethbridges, and tell them the unpleasant news that four of their crowd were dead. M 67-4
She's none o' your crowd anyway. P 41-68 The parents referred to the children as my
crowd. 1969 DE WITT 32 My crowd (sons) want nothing to do with the fishing.
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