crimp

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kɹɪmp/

Noun

specifically obsolete

An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

Japanese Meaning

船員や兵士などを、だまし取ったり、罠に嵌めたり、誘惑するなどして強制的に徴用する悪徳な仲介業者。 / 不正な手口で水夫や兵士を採用する、悪徳な徴用エージェント。

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The harbor master warned the crew about a notorious crimp who lured sailors ashore with rum and false promises.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

港の管理者は、ラム酒と偽りの約束で船員をだまして陸に誘い出す悪名高い船員をかき集める業者について乗組員に警告した。

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Sense（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,

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Sense（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.

Sense（3）

(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

crimps

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