1698 A. van Leeuwenhoek in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 174 The Muscles of a Fish that has been dead for a good while, do not contract themselves when they are cut in Pieces, which we call Krimping.

1758 J. Thacker Art Cookery 112 Cut it in Slices as you do Cod-fish for Crimping.

1805 A. Carlisle in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 23 Many transverse sections of the muscles being made, and the fish immersed in cold water, the contractions called crimping take place.

1869 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times (ed. 2) xiii. 435 Among the females..the only ceremony of importance..was that of scarring the back. Eyre indeed calls it tattooing, but ‘crimping’ would, I think, be a more correct expression.

1906 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. for 1905 App. 493 This practice..is not worse than the crimping of cod on the London fish stalls.

1925 L. Langtry Days I Knew vi. 111 There is a horrible custom called ‘crimping’, which consists of chopping up the fish while alive with a view to making the flesh more firm.

1978 R. J. Hooker Bk. Chowder 28 ‘Crimping’ refers to a practice known to the eighteenth century of cutting fishes in pieces while still alive.

1734 Builder's Dict. II. at Mortar As for the scaling (or crimping) of Mortar out of the Joints of Stone and Brick-Walls.

1755 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 237 Ornament it well with gimping, Flounces, furbelows, and crimping.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlii. 386 Presently..you see a slight crimping, followed by a dotted..appearance on the ice.

1870 Spectator 13 Aug. 976 The beautiful conchoidal waves, crimpings, and ripple-work displayed on the surface of tools and weapons in Scandinavia.

1947 P. I. Smith Pract. Plastics iii. 25/2 Such assembly operations as the crimping of metal beadings and riveting.

2007 I. R. Sinclair & J. Dunton Pract. Electronics Handbk. (ed. 6) xviii. 508 Connections to/from electronic circuits can be made by..crimping, welding or by soldering.

1990 Climbing Feb. 33/1 Edging specialists will enjoy the sustained Death-tongue (5.12d), an 80-foot testpiece requiring dicey crimping.

1996 Guardian 13 Sept. (Sport96 section) 14/1 Climbers use a hand action called ‘crimping’, in which the index, middle and ring fingertips of one hand engage with the hold with their top joints straight, and their middle joints completely bent.

2004 Rock & Ice Jan. 28 The 45-foot route involves 25 feet of sustained, unprotected crimping on a near-vertical face culminating in the crux.

2007 P. Hill Rock Climbing vi. 66 Edging with your boots on incuts and effective crimping or pulling on pebbles will help to get you up.

1794 Catal. Estate H. Keymer (J. Morris & H. Keymer) 5 Crimping board, sleek stone and cushions.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 889/2 Flounder, a slicking~tool whose edge is used to stretch leather for a boot front in a blocking or crimping board.

2002 S. M. Tibbott Domest. Life in Wales 41 To form minute crimping or rucking a crimping board and roller was also available from the early eighteenth century.

1844 H. Colman European Agric. & Rural Econ. I. v. lxxix. 424 The ploughed land resembled a ruffle just come from under the crimping iron.

1867 G. Huntington Autobiogr. John Brown Cordwainer vii. 120 She turned on him, and hit him on his bald head with the crimping-iron.

2004 Teen Vogue Aug. 130 If you're going for a more traditional, pleated look, use a crimping iron.

1816 A. Campbell Voy. World x. 192 The cloth called taper..is made from the bark of a tree, which is first steeped in water, and then beat out with a piece of wood, grooved or furrowed like a crimping machine.

1892 Liverpool Mercury 14 May 6/4 She was told by an over-looker to attend to a crimping machine and to knot flax.

2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 243/2 For making up stove pipe, the combination beading and crimping machine is used.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Crimping-pin, an instrument for pinching or puckering the border of a lady's cap.

1886 A. B. Kingsford Health, Beauty &Toilet ix. 65 Why should..Isabel's [hair] be so soft and pliant that it refuses to retain for more than an hour or two the ‘set’ given to it by the crimping-pin?

1923 E. S. Kelley Weeds 326 Hair that had been put up over night in crimping pins.

1795 Hull Advertiser 26 Sept. 4/2 We are sorry to find that the infamous practice of Crimping is not yet put a stop to.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 336 This demand was partly supplied by a system of crimping and kidnapping at the principal English seaports.

1888 Liverpool Mercury 2 Apr. 3/3 Many officials are ever doing their best to stop the business of crimping.

1935 Amer. Econ. Rev. 25 256 The old and horrible evils of ‘crimping’ would undoubtedly reappear.

2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) vi. 215 Nothing could stop crimping because, ultimately, it served the purposes of the government and the shipowners.

1795 Hull Advertiser 18 July 2/3 A false impression..of persons being kidnapped in a Crimping-house.

1858 A. Polson Law & Lawyers 148 A mob assembled in Holborn, threatening to pull down a Crimping-house.

2007 V. Gatrell City of Laughter Epil. 590 In 1795 in a crimping house ‘of the very worst sort’..a man delirious from smallpox escaped on the roof.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 261 Bestes wiþ crympyng [L. anulosi] bodyes haueþ scharpe witte and felynge..as been and ampten þat heereþ and smylleþ aferre.

a1794 S. Blamire Stoklewath in Poet. Wks. (1842) 33 I walk'd around, the crimping grass would say,—Some heavy foot has brush'd our dews away.

1854 J. E. Cooke Virginia Comedians II. vi. 38 She is the same bright little creature with sparkling eyes, and rosy cheeks, and crimping laughing lips which are the color of cherries.

a1864 J. Clare Robin's Rest in Midsummer Cushion (1990) 250 Seated in crimping ferns uncurling now In russet fringes ere in leaves they bow.

1944 R. P. T. Coffin Mainstays of Maine 16 Before my mother could stop him, he threw the lively and crimping leaf of crust right into the pot with the chicken.

1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 398 The crimping, woolly effect of half a gale from the south-west.

2008 www.viewlondon.co.uk 4 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) The crimping hairdresser was given just 30 seconds to say goodbye to his chums.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew A Crimping Fellow, a sneaking Cur.

1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 470 They were persuaded..by the crimping skipper to join the party.

1836 B. Disraeli Lett. Runnymede 105 Your fellow-countrymen whom your crimping Lordship inveigled into a participation in the civil wars of Spain.

1888 Liverpool Mercury 2 Apr. 3/3 In that paved yard there are possibly at the least some half a dozen crimping boarding-masters.

1909 J. W. Fortescue County Lieutenancies & Army iii. 191 The sergeant made him over to a crimping publican for some unrecorded price; and the publican finally disposed of him to a parish officer for £27: 6s.

1838 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 5 206 I hold it to have been wickedly, deceitfully, fraudulently, crimpingly, kidnappingly done.