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An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

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/kɹɪmp/

noun

An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

The crimp was responsible for finding and hiring seamen for the ship.

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An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

Indeed, when a maſter of a ſhip, ſuppoſe at Jamaica, hath loſt any of his hands, he applies of courſe to a crimp[…]who makes it his buſineſs to ſeduce the men belonging to ſome other ſhip,

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意味（2）

(specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

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