单词 | crimping gang |
释义 | > as lemmascrimping gang C1. General attributive, as in crimping gang, crimping system, etc. ΚΠ 1807 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 57 A passage in Plautus throws light upon the recruiting or crimping system of that time. 1825 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin Newgate Cal. II. 376/2 There was..another of the crimping gang..brought up to receive sentence. 1896 Glasgow Herald 29 Aug. 8/6 As to the men upholding the Federation, they will not uphold it much longer if this crimping business continues. 1959 T. Ropp War in Mod. World i. 37 The Prussians ran a military slave trade, and even sent armed crimping gangs into surrounding principalities. 1996 K. Starr Endangered Dreams i. i. 20 Ashore, seamen were frequently victims of the crimping system. < as lemmas |
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