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Webster 1913 Edition

(kroō′man)

Noun.

;

pl.

Kroomen

(kroō′men)

One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whose members are much employed on shipboard.

Krooman ‎(plural Kroomen)

(historical, 19th century) an ex-slave, rescued from West Africa and locally recruited into the Royal Navy, especially one from the Kroo tribe.