Cramp

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Knotty; difficult.

II. Cramp ·vt To afflict with cramp.

III. Cramp ·vt To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.

IV. Cramp ·vt To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.

V. Cramp ·vt to bind together; to Unite.

VI. Cramp ·noun That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

VII. Cramp ·noun A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.

VIII. Cramp ·noun A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, ·etc.

IX. Cramp ·add. ·noun A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, ·etc.

X. Cramp ·noun A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, ·etc.; a cramp iron.

XI. Cramp ·vt To Compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to Hinder.

XII. Cramp ·noun 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.

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