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▪ I. cramping, vbl. n.|ˈkræmpɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb cramp, esp. a fastening together with cramps or cramp-irons.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 301/2 To hold Timber work together in old decayed Houses..is termed cramping. 1739C. Labelye Short Acc. Piers Westm. Bridge 32 The Masons proceeded in setting and cramping the third Course of Stones. Ibid. 41 The same Cementing and Crampings, as if built upon dry Ground.
b. attrib. † cramping-iron, an iron for cramping or compressing.
1641Milton Animadv. v, When you have us'd all your cramping irons to the Text, and done your utmost to cramme a Presbyterie into the skin of one person.
▪ II. ˈcramping, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
1. That cramps or benumbs.
1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. I. iii. §11 The Annular Fibres are contracted more narrowly, and after a cramping Manner. 1861Swinhoe N. China Camp. 369 Bearing well the violent heat of the Pekin summer and the cramping cold of its winter.
2. That cramps, or compresses and narrows.
1788Trifler 158 No. xii, Freed from the cramping bonds of slavery. 1874Blackie Self Cult. 30 The cramping influence of purely professional occupation. 1885Tennyson Despair iv, The cramping creeds that had madden'd the peoples.
Hence ˈcrampingly adv., in a way that cramps or restricts free action.
1891Atkinson Last of Giant-Killers 189 The prison he was shut up in so closely and crampingly. |