Crimp

·noun A coal broker.

II. Crimp ·noun A game at cards.

III. Crimp ·adj Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

IV. Crimp ·adj Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

V. Crimp ·noun Hair which has been crimped;

— usually in ·pl

VI. Crimp ·vt To pinch and hold; to Seize.

VII. Crimp ·noun One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

VIII. Crimp ·vt to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.

IX. Crimp ·noun A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

X. Crimp ·vt To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, ·etc.

XI. Crimp ·add. ·vt In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.

XII. Crimp ·vt To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. ·cf. Crisp.