Crampname

• 1

  A surname.

crampnoun/kɹæmp/

• 1

  A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.

  • He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.
  • August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
• 2

  That which confines or contracts.

  • A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind.
  • How does it grate upon his thankleſs ear, / Crippling his pleaſures with the cramp of fear!
• 3

  A clamp for carpentry or masonry.

• 4

  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.

crampverb/kɹæmp/

• 1

  (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.

• 2

  To affect with cramps or spasms.

  • The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
• 3

  To prohibit movement or expression of.

  • You're cramping my style.
  • But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side
• 4

  To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

  • You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
  • when the gout cramps my joints
• 5

  To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.

• 6

  To bind together; to unite.

  • The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
• 7

  To form on a cramp.

  • to cramp boot legs

crampadj/kɹæmp/

• 1

  archaiccramped; narrow

  • […] the result was those folio volumes of MSS. now in the British Museum, in which inquirers into the history of that period find so much interesting material in such a confused state and in such a dreadfully cramp handwriting.