cramp rings

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• Cramp

  ·noun Knotty; difficult. II. Cramp ·vt To afflict with cramp. III. Cramp ·vt To form on a cramp; a...

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• cramp

  A machine to facilitate the screwing of two pieces of timber together. ...

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• rings

  The annual circular layers in timber. Also, grommets, or circles of metal for lifting things by hand...

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• Cramp iron

  ·- ·see <<Cramp>>, ·noun, 2. ...

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• cramp words

  Sentence of death passed on a criminal by a judge. He has just undergone the cramp word; sentence ha...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cramp-bark

  (Viburnum oxycoccus.) The popular name of a medicinal plant; its properties anti-spasmodic. It bears...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Nobili's rings

  ·add. ·- Colored rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper, lead per...

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• hatch-rings

  Rings to lift the hatches by, or replace them. ...

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• housing-rings

  Ring-bolts over the lower deck-ports, through the beam-clamps, to which the muzzle-lashings of the g...

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• mooring-rings

  Iron swivel rings fixed on piers or buoys, &c., for securing vessels to. ...

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• rings, to run round

  : to beat out and out. Apicturesque bit of Australian slang. One runner runs straightto the goal, th...

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