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rearing crew N. Amer.
[app. f. rear n.3]
= rear-crew s.v. rear n.3 9.
1963R. D. Symons Many Trails xviii. 184 The last men..will form the nucleus of the ‘rearing crew’—that is, the crew which will bring up the rear of the drive, taking care to roll into the water any logs left stranded on the banks. 1971Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 6 May 7-d/5 Freeing stranded logs is the job of a 32-man ‘rearing crew’, which works seven days a week with power boats, winches and occasionally a stick of dynamite. |