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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cramp \Cramp\ (kr[a^]mp), n. [OE. crampe, craumpe; akin to D. & Sw. kramp, Dan. krampe, G. krampf (whence F. crampe), Icel. krappr strait, narrow, and to E. crimp, crumple; cf. cram. See {Grape}.] 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance. [1913 Webster] A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. (Masonry) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. [1913 Webster] 3. (Carp.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] 5. (Med.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg. [1913 Webster] The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs. --Sir T. More. [1913 Webster] 6. (Med.) A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {Cramp bone}, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp. --Halliwell. "He could turn cramp bones into chess men." --Dickens. {Cramp ring}, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cramped} (kr[a^]mt; 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cramp \Cramp\, 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] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: cramp n 1: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction [syn: {spasm}, {cramp}, {muscle spasm}] 2: a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued 3: a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together [syn: {cramp}, {cramp iron}] v 1: secure with a cramp; "cramp the wood" 2: prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries" [syn: {hamper}, {halter}, {cramp}, {strangle}] 3: affect with or as if with a cramp 4: suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle