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▪ I. crimping, vbl. n.1|ˈkrɪmpɪŋ|
[f. crimp v.1]
1. The action of crimp v.1; the product of this action; a succession of small folds, frills or flutings.
1755Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 237 Ornament it well with gimping, Flounces, furbelows, and crimping. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlii. (1856) 386 Presently..you see a slight crimping, followed by a dotted..appearance on the ice. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times iv. (1878) 104 The ‘crimping’ along the edges. 1870Spectator 13 Aug. 976 The beautiful conchoidal waves, crimpings, and ripple-work displayed on the surface of tools and weapons in Scandinavia.
2. The causing of muscular contraction in fishes by dividing or gashing their flesh.
1698[see crimp v.1 4]. 1776Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 415 note, Cutting fish into pieces while yet alive, in order to make them hard, usually known by the name of crimping. 1805A. Carlisle Ibid. XCV. 23 Many transverse sections of the muscles being made, and the fish immersed in cold water, the contractions called crimping take place. 1873E. Smith Foods 111 Crimping should be performed immediately after the fish has been caught, and before the rigor mortis has set in.
3. Comb., as crimping board, crimping-iron, crimping-machine, crimping-pin, instruments for crimping frills, cap-borders, hair, etc.
1837W. Jenkins Ohio Gaz. 158 A last factory, producing 14,000 lasts, 200 boot trees, and 200 crimping boards per annum. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Crimping-iron, crimping-pin. 1877Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Crimping-machine, an instrument with two indented rollers, in which heaters can be placed..It is used for ‘crimping’ women's frills and cap-borders. 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 150 Crimping boards and their correspondingly grooved or serated rollers..were used for forming the minute crimpings, gatherings or ruckings, on 17th- and early 18th-century fabrics.
▪ II. ˈcrimping, vbl. n.2
[f. crimp v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The decoying and confining of men, in order to force them into the army, navy, or merchant service: see crimp n.1 2.
1795Hull Advertiser 26 Sept. 4/2 We are sorry to find that the infamous practice of Crimping is not yet put a stop to. 1806Weekly Polit. Rev. 27 Dec. 946 Men..who do not possess the necessary rascality for crimping. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 336 This demand was partly supplied by a system of crimping and kidnapping at the principal English seaports.
2. attrib. and Comb., as in crimping system; crimping-house, a house constructed or used for crimping seamen or soldiers.
1795Hull Advertiser 18 July 2/3 A false impression..of persons being kidnapped in a Crimping-house. 1828New Sailor's Mag. 150 All the ramifications of the crimping system in London were then developed. 1858Polson Law & L. 148 A mob assembled in Holborn, threatening to pull down a Crimping-house.
▪ III. ˈcrimping, ppl. a.1
[f. crimp v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Pinched: see crimp v.1 1.
2. That crimps or curls in minute creases.
▪ IV. ˈcrimping, ppl. a.2
[f. crimp v.2 + -ing2.]
That impresses or entraps seamen, etc.
1820Southey Life of Wesley II. 470 They were persuaded..by the crimping skipper to join the party. 1836Disraeli Lett. Runnymede 105 Your fellow-countrymen whom your crimping Lordship inveigled into a participation in the civil wars of Spain.
Hence ˈcrimpingly adv.
1838Tait's Mag. V. 206, I hold it to have been wickedly, deceitfully, fraudulently, crimpingly, kidnappingly done. |