crowd n
   1 Also: phr crowd of hands; cp HAND.
   1983 WARNER 25 To set [the cod trap] in place takes two boats 'with a good crowd of hands' working for four or five hours in reasonably calm weather. 1987 POOLE 22 When the fish was all shipped, George settled up for the crowd, with Baine Johnston of Battle Harbour, their merchant.
   2 Also: such a group from one's own community.
   1987 FIZZARD 156 'When the Americans joined the war in 1917, I came home [to Grand Bank] and signed up. I wanted to join up with our own crowd rather than with the Americans [and] I enlisted in the Newfoundland Regiment in May 1917.'
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   1987 JOHNSTON 84 My mother and father and their crowd, as their children came of an age when they could either be left at home to look after themselves or could easily be managed at a gathering, began going out to bars and clubs again. 1988 ELLIOTT [15-6] "Grandma's Lullaby": And someone roars, 'Dass Jim Parsons' crowd,/Dass been so long away.'

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