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单词 chiurm
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chiurmchiormn.

Etymology: < French chiourme, 16–18th cent., also chiorme, < Italian ciurma, Genoese ciusma, Spanish chusma. Ulterior origin doubtful: see Littré and Diez.
Obsolete.
A crew or gang of slaves rowing a galley; also contemptuous ‘crew’, ‘gang’.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew > crew of galley-slaves
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1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxi. 42 He went aboard the Cape-Gallie..passing through the Churma of slaves.]
1655 Theophania 85 The Chiorm..consisted of twenty Banks, and twenty Slaves on a Bank.
1692 tr. Sallust Wks. To Rdr. That insipid clutter which that impertinent and trifling Chiurm of Pedants make, that call themselves Expositors.
a1734 R. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North (1744) 59 Being well acquainted with..a Bey of a Galley, he procured of him a String of Slaves out of his Chiurm..to work in his building [margin Served by a Chiurm of Galley Slaves].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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