different between clamper vs clumper

English

Etymology

clamp +? -er

Noun

clamper (plural clampers)

1. One who, or that which, clamps.

   If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers.

2. An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
   • 1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin

     Both divisions are provided with clampers, to steady them and their sledges on the irregular ice-surfaces […]

3. (electronics) A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.

Synonyms

• (attachment to boot or shoe): crampon, creeper

Verb

clamper (third-person singular simple present clampers, present participle clampering, simple past and past participle clampered)

1. To crimp.
2. (obsolete) To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.
3. To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.
4. To complain in an irritating manner.

Anagrams

• reclamp

English

Etymology 1

clump +? -er

Noun

clumper (plural clumpers)

1. A grass or other plant that tends to form clumps.

Etymology 2

Compare German klumpern (“to clod”). See clump (noun).

Verb

clumper (third-person singular simple present clumpers, present participle clumpering, simple past and past participle clumpered)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To form into clumps or masses.
   • 1647, Henry More, A Platonick Song of the Soul

     Vapours […] clumper'd in balls of clouds.

Anagrams

• crumple