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MANNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a crew
Example:
a manned earth satellite was considered a necessary research step
Classified under:
Antonym:
unmanned (lacking a crew)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb man
Context examples:
We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
This ill-directed fleet had been hustled into port by the pressure of the well-manned and well-commanded British, who had pinned them there ever since, so that they had never had an opportunity of learning seamanship.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You wish us to keep this matter dark and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and powder on board.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The crews raced for the beach, but the boat I was in, having some start and being at once the lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her consort, and the bow had struck among the shore-side trees and I had caught a branch and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
