Sentence:  Indeed, when a maſter of a ſhip, ſuppoſe at Jamaica, hath loſt any of his hands, he applies of courſe to a <WSD>crimp</WSD>...who makes it his buſineſs to ſeduce the men belonging to ſome other ſhip, 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them.