| 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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