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ˈcramp-ˌring
[f. cramp n.1 + ring.]
1. A ring held to be efficacious against cramp, falling sickness, and the like; esp. one of those which in pre-reformation times the kings and queens of England used to hallow on Good Friday for this purpose.
See Burnet Hist. Ref. Records II. 266; Brand Pop. Antiq. (1870) I. 85.
1463Bury Wills (1850) 41 My crampe ryng with blak innamel and a part silvir and gilt. 1526Magnus Let. to Wolsey in Gentl. Mag. CIV. i. 30 Certaine Cramp Ringges which I distributed..amonges other to M. Adame Otterbourne, who, with oone of thayme, releved a mann lying in the falling sekenes. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. i. (1870) 121 The Kynges of Englande doth halowe euery yere Crampe rynges, the whyche rynges, worne on ones fynger, dothe helpe them the whyche hath the Crampe. 1611Middleton Roaring Girl iv. ii, A face..which shows like an agate set in a cramp ring. 1694Collect Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 193 The Morss or Sea-horse..having a great semicircular Tusk..very much valued..for their uses in Medicines, as to make Cramp-rings (which they make also of the Bristles upon his Cheeks) to resist Poison and other malignant Diseases. 1750T. Gordon Cordial Low Spirits II. 138 Is not a Brilliant more attractive than a Cramp-Ring? 1847W. Maskell Mon. Rit. III. p. clviij, These rings were called Cramp-rings, and the MS. in this volume is the service dedicated to their consecration. 1878J. C. Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Cramp-ring, a ring made from old coffin⁓tyre, or the metal ornaments of decayed coffins, and worn as a preventative of cramp.
†2. Thieves' cant. [with reference to cramp n.2] pl. Shackles, fetters. Obs.
1567Harman Caveat 84 Quier crampringes, boltes or fetters. 1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metam. Wks. (Rtldg.) 620/1 Here's no justice Lippus Will seek for to nip us, In Cramp-ring or Cippus. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 17 Thou the Cramprings ne're didst scowre [= wear]. |