Crow

You looked for crew or crow. AWE has different articles that may help you:

• There is a note on its derivation at Cock (noun).
• There is a note on the forms of the irregular verb 'to crow', whose past tense can be crew, at Crew - crow. This page also has notes on some of the different meanings of the words.
• There is also a noun crew, unrelated to the verb, meaning 'a group or team of people united to achieve a common purpose'. Its principal meaning ("Now the leading sense", OED 1893) is the whole complement of a ship or boat - that is, all the men (and women) engaged to serve and staff a particular vessel.