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▪ I. clamper, n.1 Obs. exc. Sc.|ˈklæmpə(r)|
[f. clamper v.1]
A botched-up argument or charge.
1647Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery ii. i. §1 What have the Churches done since? To what necessary truths are they, after all their clampers, advanc'd. a1664Jas. Spottiswood Mem. (1811) 61 (Jam.) His adversaryes were restless, and so found out a newe clamper. 1708M. Bruce Lect. & Serm. 27 (Jam.) They bring to Christ's grave..a number of old clampers, pat and clouted arguments. 1825–79in Jamieson.
▪ II. clamper, n.2|ˈklæmpə(r)|
[f. clamp v.1 + -er1; cf. Ger. klampfer.]
That which clamps.
1. dial. A clamp; pl. clams, pincers, etc.
1825–79Jamieson, Clamper, a piece of metal with which a vessel is mended; also, that which is thus patched up. Ibid., Clampers, a sort of pincers used for castrating bulls and other quadrupeds. 1876Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Clampers, claws, pincers.
b. transf. Clutches; = clamp n.1 2 b.
1855Whitby Gloss., If I had my clampers on him he should feel the weight o' my neaf.
2. A piece of iron with prongs or points, fitted on the sole of the boot, to dig into the ice and prevent slipping; called also an ‘ice-creeper’. (In Sc. dial. clampet is used.)
1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xx. 258 Clampers, to steady them and their sledges on the irregular ice-surfaces. 1874in Knight Dict. Mech.
3. in clamper: see quot.
1883Standard 23 Oct. 3/5 The land was ‘in clamper’, the Irish term for litigation.
▪ III. clamper, n.3 dial.|ˈklæmpə(r)|
[f. clamp v.3 + -er1.]
He who or that which treads clumsily.
1876Whitby Gloss., Clampers, wooden shoes or clogs.
▪ IV. clamper, v.1 Now chiefly Sc.|ˈklæmpə(r)|
[App. a deriv. of clamp v.1 or v.2, or perh. vaguely combining the two. Cf. esp. clamp v.1 2.]
1. trans. To put together hastily or clumsily; to botch, tinker, or patch up. lit. and fig.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 83 Rifraffe, pelfery, trumpery, baggage, and beggerie ware clamparde vp of one that would seme to be fitter for a shop in dede than to write any boke. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 5 This Apish mass became so clampered and patched together with so many divers and sundry additions. 1822Scott Let. to Joanna Baillie 10 Feb. in Lockhart, If I can clamper up the story into a sort of single scene. 1862R. Paul Let. in Mem. xviii. (1872) 239 Dr. Candlish has been in London to clamper up the Lord Advocate's Education Bill.
†2. intr. ‘Industriously to patch up accusations’ (Jamieson). Obs.
a1664Jas. Spottiswood Mem. (1811), 71 (Jam.) He preuayled nothing by clamperinge with the bishopp of Clogher.
Hence ˈclampering vbl. n.
1580Sidney Arcadia v. (1622) 446 The people alreadie tyred with their owne diuisions (of which his clampring had beene a principall nurse).
▪ V. clamper, v.2 dial.|ˈklæmpə(r)|
[derivative of clamp v.3]
intr. To tread heavily and clumsily.
1808in Jamieson. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 26 Every foot that clampers down the street Is for the..father's step mistook. |