When a muscle in your body tenses up painfully, it's a cramp. If you get a cramp in your leg when you're swimming, you have to stop and stretch out the muscle until the cramp goes away.
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance.
Noun
a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
Noun
a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
Noun
a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
Verb
prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
Verb
secure with a cramp; "cramp the wood"
n.
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a
hindrance.
n.
A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold
together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
n.
A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for
compressing the joints of framework, etc.
n.
A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the
upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is
stretched to give it the requisite shape.
n.
A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle
or muscles, as of the leg.
v. t.
To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and
contract; to hinder.
v. t.
To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
v. t.
to bind together; to unite.
v. t.
To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
v. t.
To afflict with cramp.
n.
Knotty; difficult.
Cramp
A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear.2.
The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
Cramp
The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.2.
The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.4.
When the gout cramps my joints.
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance.
To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
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