different between cramp vs catharpin

English

Etymology

From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-Germanic *kramp? (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

cramp (countable and uncountable, plural cramps)

1. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
   • 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.

   Synonyms: restraint, shackle, hindrance

   • 1782, William Cowper, Truth

     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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cramp (third-person singular simple present cramps, present participle cramping, simple past and past participle cramped)

1. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
2. (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
   • 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)

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

3. (transitive, figuratively) To prohibit movement or expression of.
   • 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

     But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side

4. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

   You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.

   • 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck

     when the gout cramps my joints

5. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
6. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
   • 1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics

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

7. To form on a cramp.

Derived terms

• cramp someone's style

Translations

Adjective

cramp (comparative more cramp, superlative most cramp)

1. (archaic) cramped; narrow

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cramp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• cramp at OneLook Dictionary Search

Manx

Etymology

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Adjective

cramp

1. intricate, complex

Derived terms

• neuchramp

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• cat-harping

Noun

catharpin (plural catharpins)

1. (nautical) A short rope, or iron cramp, used to stop the shrouds interfering with the yards.

Anagrams

• Partchian