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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cramped} (kr?mt; 215); p.
pr & vb n. {Cramping}.]
1. 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.
2. To fasten or hold with or as with a cramp.
3. Hence to bind together; to unite.
The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped
and bolted together in all its parts --Burke.
4. To form on a cramp; as to cramp boot legs.
5. 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cramped
adj : constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring
children up in cramped high-rise apartments"
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