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单词 to cramp up
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to cramp up
6. To fasten or secure with a cramp or cramps; esp. in Building, to join stones (together) with cramp-irons. †to cramp up: to do up or repair by this means. Obsolete.
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1654 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra x. iii Tottering houses must be crampt with iron barres, or they will soon down.
1675 J. Evelyn Mem. (1867) II. 102 This vessel was flat-bottomed..It consisted of two distinct keels cramped together with huge timbers.
1745 G. Knight in Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 162 A Steel Bar..capped or armed with Iron at each End, cramped with Silver.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §93 The stones..were all cramped with iron, each to its neighbour.
1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 113 The 1st regiment will have their gallopers..which I have cramped up for them; it is impossible to do anything to those belonging to the 4th regiment.
1885 Manch. Examiner 21 July 6/5 Supported by iron braces, which were cramped on to the central core.
figurative.1780 E. Burke Speech Bristol previous to Election 61 The diversified but connected fabric of universal justice, is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
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