1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 244 Crimpers of salmon.

1857 Milwaukee City Directory I. 161 Lorin Vincent, boot crimper.

1871 B. Harte Lothaw vi. sig. C3^v On either side were two companies of laundry-maids, preceded by the chief crimper and fluter.

1949 P. Davis Devel. Amer. Glass Industry x. 230 The operation was performed by a three-worker shop composed of a gatherer, a blower, and a crimper.

1984 S. Wilentz Chants Democratic iv. vi. 226 The simpler, more repetitive tasks of the crimpers, fitters, and bottomers.

1966 H. Davies Other Half 72 I would never tell a woman who's bloody ugly that she's beautiful, the way some crimpers do.

1968 E. Trevor Place for Wicked i. 6 He'd opened up as a crimper..decorating the salon and supervising the work himself.

1987 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 14 June 51/2 Crimpers let coiffures run riot at hair show.

2000 Independent 15 Apr. ii. 3/3 Tactless remarks about girls wanting to be hairdressers..had crimpers and colourists up and down the land howling with fury.

1830 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 4 New Ser. 76 That [sc. a boot crimping machine] which is the subject of the present patent..has the form fixed, and the jaws of the crimper moveable.

1849 Sci. Amer. 28 Apr. 1/2 D, represents the crimpers, which are of the same nature nearly as a die block.

1946 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 35 245/1 Men..gave the women their knives, scrapers.., needles and needlecases, boot-sole crimpers, ornaments, [etc.].

1855 Amer. Law Reg. 3 140 The crimper, which crimped the paper, held the paper in the form that it was crimped.

1863 E. P. Alexander in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 Apr. 359/1 The fabric is crimped or corrugated by passing between a pair of geared-toothed wheels or crimpers.

1952 Southern Econ. Jrnl. 18 332 The union [sc. the American Flint Glass Workers' Union] was launched in 1878 to bolster a strike against the ‘patent crimper’.

1978 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. c. 7/2 A crimper..is an excellent utensil for decoratively sealing upper and lower [pie] crusts, otherwise accomplished with a fork.

2004 Somerset Studio Sept.–Oct. 21/2 Use a crimper to krinkle silver metal heart.

1859 U.S. Patent 23,842 1 Hair-crimper.

c1870 J. F. Moore Linside Farm viii. 148 Miss Sophy, hearing a commotion, thrust her head in from the parlor, with her hair in crimpers to be ready for evening visitors.

1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer i. 131 She shook her hair loose of the crimpers and combed out the new mousybrown waves.

1949 N. Algren Man with Golden Arm i. 34 With her hair in papers, in crimpers or pins, she would be ready for the day.

2006 Daily Tel. 14 Sept. 14/1 The unsafe goods included toasters and hair crimpers with faulty wiring and damaged flexes.

1876 G. B. Goode Classif. Coll. Illustr. Animal Resources U.S. 29 (list) Methods of preparing cartridges: Loaders. Crimpers. Cappers.

1888 Jrnl. U.S. Assoc. Charcoal Iron Workers 8 268 The formation of the pipe is effected by a device known as the crimper, which is an oscillating curved jaw, acting against the face of the anvil.

1905 Pacific Fisherman Jan. 41 (advt.) Our Upright Rotary Crimper can be used in connection with a topper or as an independent crimper. This Crimper crimps the cans while on their ends instead of..on their sides.

1927 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 42 168 Many blasters continue to bite the caps on the fuse... It is much easier, and lots safer, to use a crimper, a tool made for the purpose.

1974 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 38 939/2 Washers were placed over each end of the pin and the ends flattened with a crimper made by grinding the sharp edges off the jaws of a hardened steel side cutter.

2002 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 89 412/1 After placing seed and water in the vials they were immediately sealed (Wheaton hand crimper..) with neoprene stoppers and an aluminum seal was crimped around the vial neck.

1921 U.S. Patent 1,401,715 1/1 My object is to provide certain improvements in power driven hay presses... In the drawings,..Figs. 4 and 5 are details of the crimper or tucker attachment.

1961 Times 22 May 13/7 Anything which helps to secure hay more quickly..must be an advantage, and this explains the recent interest in such new machines as the roller crusher and the crimper.

1980 J. A. Hostetler Amish Society (ed. 3) vi. 130 Amish repair shops will buy old tractor equipment, adapt it for horse-drawn use, and mount a gasoline motor on the chassis for operating a hay mower, rake, crimper, baler, corn picker, and stalk shredder.

1998 Jrnl. Range Managem. 51 225/1 After seeding the grass mixture, wheat..straw was added..and anchored to the surface with a vertical disk crimper.