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cramping |
1 definition found 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.
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