A clamp or band (of iron, etc.) for strengthening a box, etc.; a connecting piece by which the parts of anything are bound together; = band, n.1 4 5…

An instrument or mechanical device for clasping rigidly or otherwise holding fast; e.g. a clamp for holding two stones together, or any instrument…

? = clam, n.1 2a: cf. clamper, n.2 1a.

A portable tool or press with a movable part which can be screwed up so as to hold things together; esp. one used by joiners and others for…

A name of various appliances, tools, or instruments with opposite sides or parts which may be screwed or otherwise brought together, so as to…

= clamp, n.1 1. Obsolete.

Engineering. A clamp for holding and driving the workpiece in a lathe; = lathe-dog n. at lathe, n.3 compounds 2. Also: each of the individual clamps…

A device for gripping anything; spec. ‘either of the pivoted gripping devices for holding a test piece in a testing machine’ (Webster 1911).

Woodworking. A rectangular metal clamp for holding pieces together firmly for joining, used esp. by wheelwrights. Now chiefly historical.