meaning of cramp
1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
2. A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc. ; a cramp iron.
3. A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
4. 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.
5. A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
6. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
7. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
8. to bind together; to unite.
9. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
10. To afflict with cramp.
11. Knotty; difficult.
12. See Cramp, n. , 2.
13. a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
Related Words
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