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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cramped (krămt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramping. ] 1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance. Layard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, to bind together; to unite. [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To afflict with cramp. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the gout cramps my joints. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cramp, n. ] Knotty; difficult. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries.
Syn. -- guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, cranberry-tree, Viburnum opulus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped office.
Syn. -- constricted, inconvenient, uncomfortably small. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Cramp, n. ] 1. (Mil.) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard. [ Written also crampit and crampette. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the plates of iron, with attached spikes, forming a pair of crampoons; hence (Curling), an iron plate for a player to stand on when delivering the stones. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Cramp, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) See Crampet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Crampoons. ] 1. (Bot.) An aërial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a device with pointed metal projections worn over the shoes to provide traction when walking over ice, or in mountaineering; -- usually used in the plural. [ PJC ]

3. same as crampoon. [ PJC ]

a. [ F. cramponné. See Crampoons. ] (Her.) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ F. crampon, fr. OHG. chramph crooked; akin to G. krampf cramp. See Cramp, n., and cf. Crampon. ] 1. A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold. [ 1913 Webster ]