Cramp

[kræmp]

Definition

(noun.) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together.

(noun.) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued.

(verb.) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle.

(verb.) affect with or as if with a cramp.

(verb.) secure with a cramp; 'cramp the wood'.

Inputed by Katherine--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

(n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

(n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.

(v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.

(v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.

(v. t.) to bind together; to unite.

(v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.

(v. t.) To afflict with cramp.

(n.) Knotty; difficult.

Editor: Lorna

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Spasm, crick, convulsion.[2]. [Rare.] Check, restriction, restraint, obstruction.[3]. Cramp-iron.

v. a. [1]. Affect with spasms.[2]. Restrain, obstruct, hinder, check, confine.[3]. Fasten with a cramp.

Checker: Terrance

Definition

n. an involuntary and painful contraction of a voluntary muscle or group of muscles: restraint: a piece of iron bent at the ends for holding together wood stone &c.: a tool used by carpenters and others having a movable part which can be screwed tight so as to press things together.—adj. hard to make out (used of handwriting): cramped: narrow.—v.t. to affect with spasms: to confine: to hinder: to fasten with a cramp-iron.—ns. Cramp′bark the popular American name of the medicinal Viburnum Oxycoccus; Cramp′-bone the patella of the sheep an old charm for cramp; Cramp′-fish the electric ray or torpedo; Cramp′-ī′ron a piece of metal bent at both ends for binding things together; Cramp′on a grappling-iron: a pointed plate for the foot in hill-climbing; Cramp′-ring a ring formerly blessed by the sovereign on Good-Friday against cramp and the falling sickness.—adj. Cramp′y affected or diseased with cramp: producing cramp.—Bather's cramp the popular name for paralysis attacking a person while bathing; Writer's cramp or Scrivener's palsy a common disease affecting those in the habit of constant writing the muscles refusing to obey only on attempting to write.

Typed by Cedric