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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