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cramp
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)
- 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.
- August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
- That which confines or contracts.
- Synonyms: restraint, shackle, hindrance
- 1782, William Cowper, Truth
- crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- 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)
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- (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.
- 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
- (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
- 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
- (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
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (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.
- 1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics
- To form on a cramp.
Derived terms
- cramp someone's style
Translations
Adjective
cramp (comparative more cramp, superlative most cramp)
- (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
- intricate, complex
Derived terms
- neuchramp
Mutation
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wramp
English
Etymology
Exact origin uncertain, but apparently related to Danish vrampet (“warped, twisted”), Middle Low German wrempich, wrampachtich (“warped, twisted”).
Noun
wramp (plural wramps)
- A wrench, twist, or sprain of the body.
- (figuratively) A twisted or distorted view or understanding.
Translations
Verb
wramp (third-person singular simple present wramps, present participle wramping, simple past and past participle wramped)
- (transitive) To sprain (part of the body).
Translations
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