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CRAMP, n.

1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness.

2. Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion.

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.

3. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, &c.; a cramp-iron.

CRAMP, v.t.

1. To pain or affect with spasms.

2. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius.

3. To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron.

CRAMP, a. Difficult; knotty. [Little used.]



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CRAMP, n.

1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness.

2. Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion.

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.

3. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, &c.; a cramp-iron.

CRAMP, v.t.

1. To pain or affect with spasms.

2. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius.

3. To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron.

CRAMP, a. Difficult; knotty. [Little used.]


CRAMP, a.

Difficult; knotty. [Little used.] – Goodman.


CRAMP, n. [Sax. hramma; D. kramp; G. Dan. and Sw. krampe; It. rampone, a cramp-iron. Qu. Ir. crampa, a knot. If m is radical, this word may accord with the Celtic crom, G. krumm, crooked, from shrinking, contracting. But if p is radical, this word accords with the W. craf, a clasp, a cramp-iron, crafu, to secure hold of, to comprehend, Ir. crapadh, to shrink or contract. The sense is to strain or stretch.]

  1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness.
  2. Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion. A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. – L'Estrange.
  3. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, &c.; a cramp-iron. [Fr. crampon; It. rampone.]

CRAMP, v.t.

  1. To pain or affect with spasms.
  2. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius.
  3. To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron.

Cramp
  1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

    A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
    L'Estrange.

    Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear.
    Cowper.

  2. To compress] to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.

    The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
    Layard.

  3. Knotty; difficult.

    [R.]

    Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion.
    Coleridge.

  4. A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, etc.
  5. A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
  6. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
  7. A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
  8. to bind together; to unite.

    The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
    Burke.

  9. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
  10. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
  11. A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.

    The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
    Sir T. More.

    Cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp. Halliwell. "He could turn cramp bones into chess men." Dickens. -- Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday.

  12. To afflict with cramp.

    When the gout cramps my joints.
    Ford.

    To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.

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Cramp

CRAMP, noun

1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness.

2. Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion.

A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.

3. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, etc.; a cramp-iron.

CRAMP, verb transitive

1. To pain or affect with spasms.

2. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius.

3. To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron.

CRAMP, adjective Difficult; knotty. [Little used.]

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