clampn.¹

Brit.

/klamp/, U.S.

/klæmp/

Etymology: Known since 15th (or 14th) cent. Also in Dutch (since 16th cent.) klampe , now klamp , ‘clamp, cleat’, Low German and modern German klamp , klampe , in High German dialect klampfe ; on West Germanic type *klampa weak feminine, and *klampo weak masculine, belonging to a stem *klamp- , supposed to be a byform of *klamb- , klamm- : see clam n.¹, with which this word is to a certain extent synonymous. From the same stem, Middle High German had klampfer, and modern High German dialect klampfer, klamper (Bavarian), in sense of modern German klammer a clamp. Whether the English word was adopted < Low German or Dutch, or was a native derivative which happens not to be known in Old English or Middle English up to the 14th cent., is uncertain.

a. A brace, clasp, or band, usually of iron or other rigid material, used for giving strength and support to flexible or movable objects, or for fastening two or more things securely together. In many technical senses:e.g. A bar of iron for binding together stones in a building, also a metal clasp or rivet for broken china-ware, etc.; a piece of wood attached to or inserted into another to strengthen it and prevent warping.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hasp or clasp

haspOE

claspc1325

snatch1341

clampa1400

clip1488

keeper?1578

keep?1615

a1400-50 [see sense 4].

1476–8 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Andrew's, Hubbard in Brit. Mag. 32 31 Item, for ij Clampys of Iren for pewes..iijd.

1490 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. Payde for fettyng home the clampis for the baners jd.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xxxvi. 29 Ioyned with his corner borde from vnder vp, and aboue vpon the heade to come together with a clampe.

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 54 Twoo small clampes of thinne brasse plate.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 221 Clamp, a piece of wood fixed to the end of a thin board..to prevent it from casting.

1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. i. 69 Where the stones of a building are held together by clamps or bars of iron..the expansion in summer of these clamps will force the stones apart.

1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. v. 131 He bored the beams, and..made them fast with nails and clamps.

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 22 A light india-rubber clamp..sufficiently strong to grasp and retain anything light.

1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 26 Dec. One of the iron clamps of a trunk.

1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §149 Attach the two sheets together by very slight paper or muslin clamps gummed to them along the common curved edge.

1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §198 A geometrical clamp is a means of applying and maintaining six mutual pressures between two bodies touching one another at six points.

b. Ordnance. The cap-square of a gun.

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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Clamps are..small crooked plates of iron, fore-locked upon the trunnions of the cannon, to keep them steddy in their carriages at sea.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Cannon The cap-squares, commonly called clamps.

c. figurative.

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1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 30 A king on the top; with clamps and hoops of castles, garrisons, and police.

1862 S. Lucas Secularia 103 A series of rules..sustained and suspended, as it were, by the clamp of a common religious profession.

d. spec. (see quot. 1947); clamp circuit, one in which the positive or negative limits of a waveform are adjusted and maintained. Cf. clamping n. b.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [noun] > other electronic circuits

closed circuit1827

magnetic circuit1853

earth return1869

control circuit1892

Armstrong1916

rejector circuit1919

rejector1920

acceptor1921

biotron1921

stabilizer1924

ring modulator1936

squelch1937

load1943

multiar1946

clamp1947

integrating circuit1948

matrix1948

AND gate1959

biocircuit1963

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > on or off device > electronic switches

clamp1947

chopper1962

1947 L. J. Haworth in L. N. Ridenour Radar System Engin. xiii. 503 The name ‘clamp’ is applied to..electronic switches which, when closed, hold or clamp two circuit points together.

1954 B. Y. Mills in E. G. Bowen Radar (ed. 2) xiv. 450 Circuits which can be used for inserting a DC level..are called ‘clamps’.

1954 V. K. Zworykin & G. A. Morton Television (ed. 2) xiii. 535 Figure 13.38 shows a ‘clamp circuit’ employed for fixing the black level in an image orthicon camera.

1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. (ed. 2) 966/2 Clamp, valve circuit in which a waveform is adjusted and maintained at a definite level when recurring after intervals.

1963 R. G. Middleton Elem. Transistor Techn. iv. 88 A clamp circuit..maintains the peaks of the output waveform at a preset voltage level; this level might be zero or some other value. Either the positive or the negative peaks of the output voltage can be clamped to the chosen level.

a. A name of various appliances, tools, or instruments with opposite sides or parts which may be screwed or otherwise brought together, so as to seize, hold, compress, or pinch anything:e.g. with Joiners, an appliance of this nature in which articles are firmly held while being formed, or are compressed together while their glue joint is drying: a check for a vice, made of lead, copper, or other soft material to grasp without bruising, etc. = clam n.¹ 2.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun]

grapple1571

clamp1688

grip1857

gripper1857

grab1865

grapnel1875

society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > clamp

benda1250

clam1399

clamer1556

cramp1669

clamp1688

grapple1768

dog1833

shackle1838

Samson1842

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 187/2 Clamps are Pinchers with which Foxes and Badgers are taken out of the Earth.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Badger-hunting The Clamps, whereby the Badger may be taken out alive, to make Sport therewith afterwards.

1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 31 An india-rubber tube, which is to be closed by a clamp.

1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iv. 88 To place a clamp on the vessel on the proximal side of the ligature.

1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) 913 Clamp; a contrivance for making fast for a time certain parts of an instrument which are ordinarily moveable.

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Clamp, an instrument employed for the purpose of compressing the pedicle of a tumour, before its removal by the knife..it consists essentially of two metal blades capable of being approximated and fixed by a screw movement.

†b. plural. Claws, ‘clutches’; = clam n.¹ 3. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > [noun] > possession and control > possession and power or clutches

gripOE

handgripOE

crook?c1225

fist1297

fangera1300

holtc1375

in one's clawsc1386

clutcha1529

handgripe1534

clamps1548

clums1567

clamsa1569

embracement1599

pounce1614

embracea1627

1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 582 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xcviii And what hee onys into his clampis catche maye, The pooreman theareof no peece shall come bye.

3. Nautical in various senses.

a. One of the thick planks in a ship's side below the shelf-piece which support the ends of the deckbeams.

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1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 9 For clamps, middle bands and sleepers, they be all of 6 inch planke for binding within.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 6 Your risings are aboue the first Orlop as the Clamps are vnder it.

b. a piece of timber applied to a mast or yard to prevent the wood from bursting.

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1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 158 Two standards and several clamps were broken.

c. a plate of iron which can open or shut so as to confine a spar.

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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 164 Clamp, a crooked iron plate, fastened to the after-end of the main~cap of snows, to secure the trysail-mast.

d. a one-cheeked block, etc.

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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Clamp, a one-cheeked block; the spar to which it is fastened being the other cheek.

†4. In other obsolete uses: see quots. at a clamp has been explained as ‘at a pinch’, i.e. ‘in a moment’, but this is doubtful.

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a1400–50 Alexander 3263 All werldly þing, I-wis, þurȝe þe will of oure lord, In-to þe contrare clene is at a clamp turned.

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. F.j^v How ere their gownes, be gathred in the backe, With organe pipes, of old king Henries clampe.

1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 14 Clamps, irons at the ends of Fires, to keep up the Fewel. In other places called Creepers or Dogs.

1746 H. Miles in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 56 A Clamp of Iron, such as is used for heating Box-Irons for smoothing Linen-Clothes.

Compounds

C1. Generalattributive.

clamp-ring n.

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1879 S. Highley in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 257/2 The clamp-ring attached to each form of lamp.

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clamp-treatment n. (in Medicine)

clamp-tube n.

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1879 S. Highley in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 257/2 Two-sharp edges were left to bite on the adjusting clamp-tube.

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clamp-connection n. a connecting swelling between adjoining cells of the hyphæ of certain fungi.

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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > cells and tissue

chive1721

spawn1731

mushroom spawn1753

volva1753

ring1777

veil1777

curtain1796

wrapper1796

fungin1813

subiculum1821

cortina1832

velum1832

mycelium1836

uterus1836

gleba1847

hypostroma1855

sulcus1856

rhizopod1859

tigellule1860

trichophore1860

hypha1866

hypothecium1866

rhizopodium1866

annulus1871

capillitium1871

acervulus1872

weft1875

capsule1883

clamp-connection1887

periphysis1887

chain gemma1893

trumpet hypha1900

metula1915

monokaryon1935

1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi i. 2 The clamp-connections..occur only on hyphae with transverse segmentation, and chiefly in the Basidiomycetes... A clamp of this kind when fully formed is..a nearly semicircular protuberance like a short branch which springs from one cell..and is closely applied to the lateral wall of the adjoining cell.

1931 A. H. R. Buller Res. Fungi IV. ii. ii. 271 Each cell-division is accompanied by the formation of a clamp-connexion between the two daughter cells.

clamp-irons n. andirons.

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1742–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Clamp-irons, at the Ends of Fires to keep up the Fewel, called also Creepers, or Dogs [in earlier edds. clamps.]

clamp-nail n. a large-headed nail for fastening iron clamps.

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1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Clamp-nails.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 134 Clamp nails are short stout nails with large heads, for fastening iron clamps.

clamp-plate n. Shipbuilding an iron plate, generally of circular shape, serving to unite two bodies.

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1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xii. 239 Additional strength is often given to the upper part of a ship by means of rail and Clamp-plates.

clamp-screw n. see quot.

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1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xii. 102 Three pair of clamp screws.

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 560/2 Clamp-screw, a joiner's implement, on the bench, or to be attached to the work, for holding work to a table, or two pieces together.

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clampn.²

Etymology: Perhaps a specific application of clamp n.¹: compare the analogous pair clam n.¹, clam n.²

†1. An earlier name of the edible Clams of North America.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Unionidae > member of

musseleOE

palour1589

pearl mussel1607

hena1613

horse-mussel1626

clam1672

clamp1672

pearl shell1781

glam1797

naiad1829

naid1854

unionid1861

zebra mussel1866

hackleback1899

maple leaf1908

monkey-face1936

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae

Venus-shell1589

hena1613

sea-snapple1658

clam1672

clamp1672

nun1678

purr?1711

Venus purr1713

Venus1777

quahog1781

palourde1823

littleneck1854

venerid1861

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Myacidae

fleming1603

clam1672

clamp1672

basket-shell1713

Mya1777

soft clam1800

smurlin1806

sand-clam1809

long clam1811

old maid1815

softshell clam1818

maninose1843

gaper1853

long neck1857

geoduck1881

bluenose1883

sand-gaper1887

mano1899

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 216 Mustels, Wilks, Oisters, Clamps, Periwinkels, and diuers others.]

1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 153 Clam, or Clamp, a kind of Shell Fish, a white Muscle.

2. Usually clamp-shell n. the large bivalve shell of the tropical molluscs Chama and Tridacna (family Chamaceæ).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Chamidae

clam1688

chama1753

chamite1799

clamp-shell1835

cyclad1866

monopleurid1903

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Tridacnidae

Tridacna1776

clamp-shell1835

taclobo1885

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. viii. 251 The giant Clamp-shells..sometimes four feet in length and weighing more than five hundred pounds suspend their vast bulk by means of a strong byssus.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §952.

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clampn.³

Brit.

/klamp/, U.S.

/klæmp/

Etymology: Evidenced only since 16th cent.; identical with Middle Dutch and Dutch klamp ‘heap’, and possibly an adoption of that word as a term of brickmakers. It may be originally from the same root as clamp n.¹, with the notion of a closely compressed mass; see also clump n.

A compact heap, mound, or pile of materials; in various specific senses:

1. Brickmaking. A large quadrangular stack or pile of bricks built for burning in the open air.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > stack of bricks

brick clamp1597

clamp1597

clam1663

1597 S. Finche Let. 7 Mar. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 153* To the Parke we came, and there wente from clampe to clampe.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 128 For burning a Clamp of 16000 bricks, they use about 7 Tunns of coal.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iii. 40 A person goes into a brickmaker's field to view his clamp, and buy a load of bricks.

1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury II. xvi. 228 Where..some contiguous brick clamp dispelled the gloom.

2. Farming.

a. A mound of earth or turf lined with straw, in which potatoes, etc., are kept during winter.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > pitting or clamping > pit or clamp

pitc1500

hog1729

potato pie1807

silo1835

potato pit1844

clamp1881

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. xvi. 352 When the inclosure was filled with sods, and the clamp raised to the height of eight feet, twelve fires were all kindled at the same time, and, in less than forty-eight hours, the whole mass..was entirely burnt through to the top.

1881 Daily News 4 June 5/5 The clamps of mangolds were being eaten into with alarming rapidity.

b. a stack of turf or peat.

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1724 J. Swift Blunders of Quilca in Misc. (1745) X. 166 Not a Bit of Turf this cold Weather, and Mrs. Johnson and the Dean..forc'd to assist at the Bog in gathering up the wet Bottoms of old Clamps.

1754 W. Henry in Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 2 Several clamps of turf..standing in a bog.

c. a manure-heap.

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1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Oct. xvi. 91 A long and square Clamp, or Dunghil.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Useful Projects 108/1 Men..pile up the dung in a square clamp.

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d. a heap of farm or garden rubbish for burning, etc.

3. Mining, etc.: A pile of limestone or metal ore for roasting, a heap of coal for coking, etc.

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1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Clamp, a pile of bricks or limestone for burning.

Compounds

clamp-burnt adj., clamp-brick, clamp-kiln.

1795 J. F. Erskine Agric. Clackmannan 311 When the uncalcined lime stone is imported, the farmers burn it in what is called clamp-kilns, which are built round or oblong with sods and earth.

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 408/2 Clamp-bricks..kiln-burnt bricks and marl stocks, as well as Dutch clinkers.

1881 Mechanic §1152. 539 Clamp-burnt bricks.

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clampn.⁴

Brit.

/klamp/, U.S.

/klæmp/

Etymology: Onomatopoeic: apparently with association of clap, clumsy, club, etc., and stamp, tramp, champ.

Chiefly dialect.

A heavy, solid step, tread, or stamp with the feet.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > heavy

proculcation1656

tramping1660

stump1770

clampa1774

stumping1805

foot tramp1808

tramp1817

stomping1819

trampling1828

tromping1953

stomp1971

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 175 Broggs, whilk on my body tramp, And wound like death at ilka clamp.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. vi. 109 The clamp of their [horses'] feet on the round stable pavement.

Compounds

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clamp-shoes n. heavy shoes for rough work (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).

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clampv.¹

Brit.

/klamp/, U.S.

/klæmp/

Etymology: < clamp n.¹, corresponding to Dutch klampen, dialect German klampfen and klampfern, beside klammen, klammern.

a. transitive. To make fast with a clamp or clamps.

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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > clamp

dog1591

clamp1678

trammel1833

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. Explan. Terms 108 The ends of Tables are commonly Clamp't to preserve them from warping.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 100/1 The ends of Tables are commonly clampt to preserve them from warping.

1790 Roy Trigon. Operation in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 157 The circle being clamped, hang the axis level on the pivots or ansæ of the telescope.

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 43 By sliding the one on the other and clamping them together when adjusted.

1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iv. 88 The carotid..is..clamped in two places and divided between the clamps.

1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 6 He cleaves, clamps, dovetails in.

figurative.1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. xx. 135 I clamped and soldered dogma to dogma in the links of my tinkered logic.1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 3 The haggard cheeks, the lips clamped together in unfaltering resolve.

b. To seize or press firmly.

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1904 F. Lynde Grafters xxiv. 305 In one motion he clamped the weapon and turned it aside.

c. To adjust and maintain the positive or negative limits of a waveform. Cf. clamping n. b.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > operation of electronic devices > [verb (transitive)] > maintain limits of waveform

clamp1954

1954 B. Y. Mills in E. G. Bowen Radar (ed. 2) xiv. 451 If it is desired to clamp the intermediate portion of a waveform, or if the waveform can change polarity, it becomes necessary to use a double-ended clamp.

2. (Scottish) ‘To patch, to make up or mend in a clumsy manner’ (Jamieson); = clamper v.¹

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a1800 Symmye & his Bruder in Sibbald Sc. Poet. I. 360 (Jam.) Syne clampit up Sanct Peter's keiss Bot of ane auld reid gartane.

3. to clamp down:

a. To press down on; transferred to take strong measures; to become (more) strict; to put a stop to (an undesirable activity, etc.). Const. on.

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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > suppress, repress, or put down

nithereOE

adweschOE

overtreadOE

quellOE

to trample or tread under foot (also feet)c1175

adauntc1325

to bear downc1330

oppressc1380

repressc1391

overyoke?a1425

quencha1425

to bear overc1425

supprisec1440

overquell?c1450

farec1460

supprime1490

downbeara1500

stanch1513

undertread1525

downtread1536

suppress1537

to set one's foot on the neck of1557

depress?a1562

overbear1565

surpress1573

trample1583

repose1663

spiflicate1749

sort1815

to trample down1853

to sit on ——1915

to clamp down1924

crack down1940

tamp1959

1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley vi. 66 Matt..clamped his own left arm down on the other's right.

1941 H. Flanagan in W. Kozlenko 100 Non-Royalty Radio Plays 69/1 There isn't any money. They clamped down on the expenses.

1945 N. Marsh Died in Wool 25 We've clamped down on it for six months.

1952 Economist 19 July 176 The government clamped down firmly on all political agitation.

1963 Listener 7 Mar. 432/3 The complacent upper class that..clamped down brutally on criminals, exploited servants.

b. Of cloud, fog, etc.: to descend very low, so as to prevent flying, etc.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > become cloudy or overcast [verb (intransitive)] > descend low

to clamp down1943

1943 C. Lewis Pathfinders 262 The only thing that worried him was the weather. It was clamping down. They couldn't fly through it without instruments.

1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 5 It's clamped down over the mountains.

1959 Punch 13 May 648/3 Make a neat list of constructive under-cover jobs so that when the weather clamps down you needn't waste time.

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clampv.²

Etymology: < clamp n.³

transitive. To pile up (bricks, earth, manure, or the like) in a compact heap; to store (potatoes or mangold) in a clamp.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > heap or pile up

heapc1000

ruck?c1225

ruckle?c1225

givelc1300

upheap1469

binga1522

pilec1540

copa1552

bank1577

hill1581

plet1584

conglomerate1596

acervate1623

coacervate1623

tilea1643

aggest1655

coacerve1660

pyramida1666

aggerate1693

big1716

bepilea1726

clamp1742

bulk1822

pang1898

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [verb (transitive)] > pit or clamp

pit1454

hog1725

pie1791

clamp1851

1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Sept. v. 50 Upon this he changed his Seed and clamped his Dung.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. x. 258 The manure..was piled up..to the height of near 7 feet, when another heap was clamped up.

1851 I. J. Mechi 2nd Paper on Brit. Agric. 41 In clamping or earthing large mounds of mangold wurzel.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

clampv.³

Brit.

/klamp/, U.S.

/klæmp/

Etymology: Goes with clamp n.⁴

Chiefly dialect.

intransitive. To tread or stamp heavily and clumsily; to clump.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily

stamp1490

trample1530

tramp1570

stump1600

thump1604

clump1665

trape1706

pound1801

clamp1808

clomp1829

lump1861

tromp1892

stunt1901

stomp1919

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Clamp, Clamper, to make a noise with the shoes in walking, especially when they are studded with nails.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xv The smock-frocks..clamped out of church quite unconcerned.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby I gat my teeas [toes] clamp'd on.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Clamp, to tread heavily.

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释义	clampn.¹ Brit. /klamp/, U.S. /klæmp/ Etymology: Known since 15th (or 14th) cent. Also in Dutch (since 16th cent.) klampe , now klamp , ‘clamp, cleat’, Low German and modern German klamp , klampe , in High German dialect klampfe ; on West Germanic type klampa weak feminine, and klampo weak masculine, belonging to a stem klamp- , supposed to be a byform of klamb- , klamm- : see clam n.¹, with which this word is to a certain extent synonymous. From the same stem, Middle High German had klampfer, and modern High German dialect klampfer, klamper (Bavarian), in sense of modern German klammer a clamp. Whether the English word was adopted < Low German or Dutch, or was a native derivative which happens not to be known in Old English or Middle English up to the 14th cent., is uncertain. 1. a. A brace, clasp, or band, usually of iron or other rigid material, used for giving strength and support to flexible or movable objects, or for fastening two or more things securely together. In many technical senses:e.g. A bar of iron for binding together stones in a building, also a metal clasp or rivet for broken china-ware, etc.; a piece of wood attached to or inserted into another to strengthen it and prevent warping. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hasp or clasp haspOE claspc1325 snatch1341 clampa1400 clip1488 keeper?1578 keep?1615 a1400-50 [see sense 4]. 1476–8 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Andrew's, Hubbard in Brit. Mag. 32 31 Item, for ij Clampys of Iren for pewes..iijd. 1490 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. Payde for fettyng home the clampis for the baners jd. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xxxvi. 29 Ioyned with his corner borde from vnder vp, and aboue vpon the heade to come together with a clampe. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 54 Twoo small clampes of thinne brasse plate. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 221 Clamp, a piece of wood fixed to the end of a thin board..to prevent it from casting. 1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. i. 69 Where the stones of a building are held together by clamps or bars of iron..the expansion in summer of these clamps will force the stones apart. 1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. v. 131 He bored the beams, and..made them fast with nails and clamps. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 22 A light india-rubber clamp..sufficiently strong to grasp and retain anything light. 1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 26 Dec. One of the iron clamps of a trunk. 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §149 Attach the two sheets together by very slight paper or muslin clamps gummed to them along the common curved edge. 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §198 A geometrical clamp is a means of applying and maintaining six mutual pressures between two bodies touching one another at six points. b. Ordnance. The cap-square of a gun. ΚΠ 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Clamps are..small crooked plates of iron, fore-locked upon the trunnions of the cannon, to keep them steddy in their carriages at sea. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Cannon The cap-squares, commonly called clamps. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 30 A king on the top; with clamps and hoops of castles, garrisons, and police. 1862 S. Lucas Secularia 103 A series of rules..sustained and suspended, as it were, by the clamp of a common religious profession. d. spec. (see quot. 1947); clamp circuit, one in which the positive or negative limits of a waveform are adjusted and maintained. Cf. clamping n. b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [noun] > other electronic circuits closed circuit1827 magnetic circuit1853 earth return1869 control circuit1892 Armstrong1916 rejector circuit1919 rejector1920 acceptor1921 biotron1921 stabilizer1924 ring modulator1936 squelch1937 load1943 multiar1946 clamp1947 integrating circuit1948 matrix1948 AND gate1959 biocircuit1963 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > on or off device > electronic switches clamp1947 chopper1962 1947 L. J. Haworth in L. N. Ridenour Radar System Engin. xiii. 503 The name ‘clamp’ is applied to..electronic switches which, when closed, hold or clamp two circuit points together. 1954 B. Y. Mills in E. G. Bowen Radar (ed. 2) xiv. 450 Circuits which can be used for inserting a DC level..are called ‘clamps’. 1954 V. K. Zworykin & G. A. Morton Television (ed. 2) xiii. 535 Figure 13.38 shows a ‘clamp circuit’ employed for fixing the black level in an image orthicon camera. 1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. (ed. 2) 966/2 Clamp, valve circuit in which a waveform is adjusted and maintained at a definite level when recurring after intervals. 1963 R. G. Middleton Elem. Transistor Techn. iv. 88 A clamp circuit..maintains the peaks of the output waveform at a preset voltage level; this level might be zero or some other value. Either the positive or the negative peaks of the output voltage can be clamped to the chosen level. 2. a. A name of various appliances, tools, or instruments with opposite sides or parts which may be screwed or otherwise brought together, so as to seize, hold, compress, or pinch anything:e.g. with Joiners, an appliance of this nature in which articles are firmly held while being formed, or are compressed together while their glue joint is drying: a check for a vice, made of lead, copper, or other soft material to grasp without bruising, etc. = clam n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] grapple1571 clamp1688 grip1857 gripper1857 grab1865 grapnel1875 society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > clamp benda1250 clam1399 clamer1556 cramp1669 clamp1688 grapple1768 dog1833 shackle1838 Samson1842 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 187/2 Clamps are Pinchers with which Foxes and Badgers are taken out of the Earth. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Badger-hunting The Clamps, whereby the Badger may be taken out alive, to make Sport therewith afterwards. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 31 An india-rubber tube, which is to be closed by a clamp. 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iv. 88 To place a clamp on the vessel on the proximal side of the ligature. 1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) 913 Clamp; a contrivance for making fast for a time certain parts of an instrument which are ordinarily moveable. 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Clamp, an instrument employed for the purpose of compressing the pedicle of a tumour, before its removal by the knife..it consists essentially of two metal blades capable of being approximated and fixed by a screw movement. †b. plural. Claws, ‘clutches’; = clam n.¹ 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > [noun] > possession and control > possession and power or clutches gripOE handgripOE crook?c1225 fist1297 fangera1300 holtc1375 in one's clawsc1386 clutcha1529 handgripe1534 clamps1548 clums1567 clamsa1569 embracement1599 pounce1614 embracea1627 1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 582 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. xcviii And what hee onys into his clampis catche maye, The pooreman theareof no peece shall come bye. 3. Nautical in various senses. a. One of the thick planks in a ship's side below the shelf-piece which support the ends of the deckbeams. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 9 For clamps, middle bands and sleepers, they be all of 6 inch planke for binding within. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 6 Your risings are aboue the first Orlop as the Clamps are vnder it. b. a piece of timber applied to a mast or yard to prevent the wood from bursting. ΚΠ 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 158 Two standards and several clamps were broken. c. a plate of iron which can open or shut so as to confine a spar. ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 164 Clamp, a crooked iron plate, fastened to the after-end of the main~cap of snows, to secure the trysail-mast. d. a one-cheeked block, etc. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Clamp, a one-cheeked block; the spar to which it is fastened being the other cheek. †4. In other obsolete uses: see quots. at a clamp has been explained as ‘at a pinch’, i.e. ‘in a moment’, but this is doubtful. ΚΠ a1400–50 Alexander 3263 All werldly þing, I-wis, þurȝe þe will of oure lord, In-to þe contrare clene is at a clamp turned. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. F.j^v How ere their gownes, be gathred in the backe, With organe pipes, of old king Henries clampe. 1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 14 Clamps, irons at the ends of Fires, to keep up the Fewel. In other places called Creepers or Dogs. 1746 H. Miles in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 56 A Clamp of Iron, such as is used for heating Box-Irons for smoothing Linen-Clothes. Compounds C1. Generalattributive. clamp-ring n. ΚΠ 1879 S. Highley in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 257/2 The clamp-ring attached to each form of lamp. Categories » clamp-treatment n. (in Medicine) clamp-tube n. ΚΠ 1879 S. Highley in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 257/2 Two-sharp edges were left to bite on the adjusting clamp-tube. C2. clamp-connection n. a connecting swelling between adjoining cells of the hyphæ of certain fungi. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > cells and tissue chive1721 spawn1731 mushroom spawn1753 volva1753 ring1777 veil1777 curtain1796 wrapper1796 fungin1813 subiculum1821 cortina1832 velum1832 mycelium1836 uterus1836 gleba1847 hypostroma1855 sulcus1856 rhizopod1859 tigellule1860 trichophore1860 hypha1866 hypothecium1866 rhizopodium1866 annulus1871 capillitium1871 acervulus1872 weft1875 capsule1883 clamp-connection1887 periphysis1887 chain gemma1893 trumpet hypha1900 metula1915 monokaryon1935 1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi i. 2 The clamp-connections..occur only on hyphae with transverse segmentation, and chiefly in the Basidiomycetes... A clamp of this kind when fully formed is..a nearly semicircular protuberance like a short branch which springs from one cell..and is closely applied to the lateral wall of the adjoining cell. 1931 A. H. R. Buller Res. Fungi IV. ii. ii. 271 Each cell-division is accompanied by the formation of a clamp-connexion between the two daughter cells. clamp-irons n. andirons. ΚΠ 1742–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Clamp-irons, at the Ends of Fires to keep up the Fewel, called also Creepers, or Dogs [in earlier edds. clamps.] clamp-nail n. a large-headed nail for fastening iron clamps. ΚΠ 1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Clamp-nails. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 134 Clamp nails are short stout nails with large heads, for fastening iron clamps. clamp-plate n. Shipbuilding an iron plate, generally of circular shape, serving to unite two bodies. ΚΠ 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xii. 239 Additional strength is often given to the upper part of a ship by means of rail and Clamp-plates. clamp-screw n. see quot. ΚΠ 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xii. 102 Three pair of clamp screws. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 560/2 Clamp-screw, a joiner's implement, on the bench, or to be attached to the work, for holding work to a table, or two pieces together. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clampn.² Etymology: Perhaps a specific application of clamp n.¹: compare the analogous pair clam n.¹, clam n.² †1. An earlier name of the edible Clams of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Unionidae > member of musseleOE palour1589 pearl mussel1607 hena1613 horse-mussel1626 clam1672 clamp1672 pearl shell1781 glam1797 naiad1829 naid1854 unionid1861 zebra mussel1866 hackleback1899 maple leaf1908 monkey-face1936 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae Venus-shell1589 hena1613 sea-snapple1658 clam1672 clamp1672 nun1678 purr?1711 Venus purr1713 Venus1777 quahog1781 palourde1823 littleneck1854 venerid1861 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Myacidae fleming1603 clam1672 clamp1672 basket-shell1713 Mya1777 soft clam1800 smurlin1806 sand-clam1809 long clam1811 old maid1815 softshell clam1818 maninose1843 gaper1853 long neck1857 geoduck1881 bluenose1883 sand-gaper1887 mano1899 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 216 Mustels, Wilks, Oisters, Clamps, Periwinkels, and diuers others.] 1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 153 Clam, or Clamp, a kind of Shell Fish, a white Muscle. 2. Usually clamp-shell n. the large bivalve shell of the tropical molluscs Chama and Tridacna (family Chamaceæ). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Chamidae clam1688 chama1753 chamite1799 clamp-shell1835 cyclad1866 monopleurid1903 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Tridacnidae Tridacna1776 clamp-shell1835 taclobo1885 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. viii. 251 The giant Clamp-shells..sometimes four feet in length and weighing more than five hundred pounds suspend their vast bulk by means of a strong byssus. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §952. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2019). clampn.³ Brit. /klamp/, U.S. /klæmp/ Etymology: Evidenced only since 16th cent.; identical with Middle Dutch and Dutch klamp ‘heap’, and possibly an adoption of that word as a term of brickmakers. It may be originally from the same root as clamp n.¹, with the notion of a closely compressed mass; see also clump n. A compact heap, mound, or pile of materials; in various specific senses: 1. Brickmaking. A large quadrangular stack or pile of bricks built for burning in the open air. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > stack of bricks brick clamp1597 clamp1597 clam1663 1597 S. Finche Let. 7 Mar. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 153* To the Parke we came, and there wente from clampe to clampe. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 128 For burning a Clamp of 16000 bricks, they use about 7 Tunns of coal. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iii. 40 A person goes into a brickmaker's field to view his clamp, and buy a load of bricks. 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury II. xvi. 228 Where..some contiguous brick clamp dispelled the gloom. 2. Farming. a. A mound of earth or turf lined with straw, in which potatoes, etc., are kept during winter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > pitting or clamping > pit or clamp pitc1500 hog1729 potato pie1807 silo1835 potato pit1844 clamp1881 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. xvi. 352 When the inclosure was filled with sods, and the clamp raised to the height of eight feet, twelve fires were all kindled at the same time, and, in less than forty-eight hours, the whole mass..was entirely burnt through to the top. 1881 Daily News 4 June 5/5 The clamps of mangolds were being eaten into with alarming rapidity. b. a stack of turf or peat. ΚΠ 1724 J. Swift Blunders of Quilca in Misc. (1745) X. 166 Not a Bit of Turf this cold Weather, and Mrs. Johnson and the Dean..forc'd to assist at the Bog in gathering up the wet Bottoms of old Clamps. 1754 W. Henry in Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 2 Several clamps of turf..standing in a bog. c. a manure-heap. ΚΠ 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Oct. xvi. 91 A long and square Clamp, or Dunghil. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Useful Projects 108/1 Men..pile up the dung in a square clamp. Thesaurus » Categories » d. a heap of farm or garden rubbish for burning, etc. 3. Mining, etc.: A pile of limestone or metal ore for roasting, a heap of coal for coking, etc. ΚΠ 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Clamp, a pile of bricks or limestone for burning. Compounds clamp-burnt adj., clamp-brick, clamp-kiln. Π 1795 J. F. Erskine Agric. Clackmannan 311 When the uncalcined lime stone is imported, the farmers burn it in what is called clamp-kilns, which are built round or oblong with sods and earth. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 408/2 Clamp-bricks..kiln-burnt bricks and marl stocks, as well as Dutch clinkers. 1881 Mechanic §1152. 539 Clamp-burnt bricks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clampn.⁴ Brit. /klamp/, U.S. /klæmp/ Etymology: Onomatopoeic: apparently with association of clap, clumsy, club, etc., and stamp, tramp, champ. Chiefly dialect. A heavy, solid step, tread, or stamp with the feet. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > heavy proculcation1656 tramping1660 stump1770 clampa1774 stumping1805 foot tramp1808 tramp1817 stomping1819 trampling1828 tromping1953 stomp1971 a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 175 Broggs, whilk on my body tramp, And wound like death at ilka clamp. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. vi. 109 The clamp of their [horses'] feet on the round stable pavement. Compounds Categories » clamp-shoes n. heavy shoes for rough work (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clampv.¹ Brit. /klamp/, U.S. /klæmp/ Etymology: < clamp n.¹, corresponding to Dutch klampen, dialect German klampfen and klampfern, beside klammen, klammern. 1. a. transitive. To make fast with a clamp or clamps. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > clamp dog1591 clamp1678 trammel1833 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. Explan. Terms 108 The ends of Tables are commonly Clamp't to preserve them from warping. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 100/1 The ends of Tables are commonly clampt to preserve them from warping. 1790 Roy Trigon. Operation in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 157 The circle being clamped, hang the axis level on the pivots or ansæ of the telescope. 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 43 By sliding the one on the other and clamping them together when adjusted. 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. iv. 88 The carotid..is..clamped in two places and divided between the clamps. 1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 6 He cleaves, clamps, dovetails in. figurative.1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. xx. 135 I clamped and soldered dogma to dogma in the links of my tinkered logic.1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 3 The haggard cheeks, the lips clamped together in unfaltering resolve. b. To seize or press firmly. ΚΠ 1904 F. Lynde Grafters xxiv. 305 In one motion he clamped the weapon and turned it aside. c. To adjust and maintain the positive or negative limits of a waveform. Cf. clamping n. b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > operation of electronic devices > [verb (transitive)] > maintain limits of waveform clamp1954 1954 B. Y. Mills in E. G. Bowen Radar (ed. 2) xiv. 451 If it is desired to clamp the intermediate portion of a waveform, or if the waveform can change polarity, it becomes necessary to use a double-ended clamp. 1963 R. G. Middleton Elem. Transistor Techn. iv. 88 A clamp circuit..maintains the peaks of the output waveform at a preset voltage level; this level might be zero or some other value. Either the positive or the negative peaks of the output voltage can be clamped to the chosen level. 2. (Scottish) ‘To patch, to make up or mend in a clumsy manner’ (Jamieson); = clamper v.¹ ΚΠ a1800 Symmye & his Bruder in Sibbald Sc. Poet. I. 360 (Jam.) Syne clampit up Sanct Peter's keiss Bot of ane auld reid gartane. 3. to clamp down: a. To press down on; transferred to take strong measures; to become (more) strict; to put a stop to (an undesirable activity, etc.). Const. on. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > suppress, repress, or put down nithereOE adweschOE overtreadOE quellOE to trample or tread under foot (also feet)c1175 adauntc1325 to bear downc1330 oppressc1380 repressc1391 overyoke?a1425 quencha1425 to bear overc1425 supprisec1440 overquell?c1450 farec1460 supprime1490 downbeara1500 stanch1513 undertread1525 downtread1536 suppress1537 to set one's foot on the neck of1557 depress?a1562 overbear1565 surpress1573 trample1583 repose1663 spiflicate1749 sort1815 to trample down1853 to sit on ——1915 to clamp down1924 crack down1940 tamp1959 1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley vi. 66 Matt..clamped his own left arm down on the other's right. 1941 H. Flanagan in W. Kozlenko 100 Non-Royalty Radio Plays 69/1 There isn't any money. They clamped down on the expenses. 1945 N. Marsh Died in Wool 25 We've clamped down on it for six months. 1952 Economist 19 July 176 The government clamped down firmly on all political agitation. 1963 Listener 7 Mar. 432/3 The complacent upper class that..clamped down brutally on criminals, exploited servants. b. Of cloud, fog, etc.: to descend very low, so as to prevent flying, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > become cloudy or overcast [verb (intransitive)] > descend low to clamp down1943 1943 C. Lewis Pathfinders 262 The only thing that worried him was the weather. It was clamping down. They couldn't fly through it without instruments. 1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 5 It's clamped down over the mountains. 1959 Punch 13 May 648/3 Make a neat list of constructive under-cover jobs so that when the weather clamps down you needn't waste time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clampv.² Etymology: < clamp n.³ transitive. To pile up (bricks, earth, manure, or the like) in a compact heap; to store (potatoes or mangold) in a clamp. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > heap or pile up heapc1000 ruck?c1225 ruckle?c1225 givelc1300 upheap1469 binga1522 pilec1540 copa1552 bank1577 hill1581 plet1584 conglomerate1596 acervate1623 coacervate1623 tilea1643 aggest1655 coacerve1660 pyramida1666 aggerate1693 big1716 bepilea1726 clamp1742 bulk1822 pang1898 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [verb (transitive)] > pit or clamp pit1454 hog1725 pie1791 clamp1851 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Sept. v. 50 Upon this he changed his Seed and clamped his Dung. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. x. 258 The manure..was piled up..to the height of near 7 feet, when another heap was clamped up. 1851 I. J. Mechi 2nd Paper on Brit. Agric. 41 In clamping or earthing large mounds of mangold wurzel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018). clampv.³ Brit. /klamp/, U.S. /klæmp/ Etymology: Goes with clamp n.⁴ Chiefly dialect. intransitive. To tread or stamp heavily and clumsily; to clump. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily stamp1490 trample1530 tramp1570 stump1600 thump1604 clump1665 trape1706 pound1801 clamp1808 clomp1829 lump1861 tromp1892 stunt1901 stomp1919 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Clamp, Clamper, to make a noise with the shoes in walking, especially when they are studded with nails. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xv The smock-frocks..clamped out of church quite unconcerned. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby I gat my teeas [toes] clamp'd on. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Clamp, to tread heavily. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1400n.²1672n.³1597n.⁴a1774v.¹1678v.²1742v.³1808
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