† crumstercromstern.
Obsolete.
A kind of galley or hoy.
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1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 98 Two or three crumsters or galleys buylt, and furnished vpon the riuer.
1596 W. Raleigh Invent. Shipping 28 200 saile of Crumsters, or hoyes of Newcastle, which each of them will beare six Demiculverins, and foure Sakers.
1600 Carew MSS. (1869) 375 Certain ships called ‘crompsters’..with other barks and barges.
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