English Dictionary

crimp

/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.

意味（1）

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,

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.