A ship's company or crew.

A crew, such as a crew of workers, or the crew of a vessel. Obsolete.

A ship's company. Obsolete. rare.

spec. The crew of a ship or boat. Cf. gang, n.

spec. The entire crew of a ship; = ship's company n. at ship, n.1 compounds 3a.

The full number required to complete a company, to fill a conveyance, or esp. to man a ship.

the crew of a ship.

Nautical. The whole of the men belonging to and manning a ship, boat, or other vessel afloat. (Now the leading sense.)

Occasionally in sense of complement, n. 4c. Obsolete.

Transl. of French équipage, the crew of a ship. Obsolete. rare.