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单词 cramping
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crampingn.

/ˈkrampɪŋ/
Etymology: -ing suffix1.
a. The action of cramp v., esp. a fastening together with cramps or cramp-irons.
ΚΠ
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 301/2 To hold Timber work together in old decayed Houses..is termed cramping.
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 32 The Masons proceeded in setting and cramping the third Course of Stones.
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 41 The same Cementing and Crampings, as if built upon dry Ground.
b. attributive. †cramping-iron, an iron for cramping or compressing.
ΚΠ
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 39 When you have us'd all your cramping irons to the Text, and done your utmost to cramme a Presbyterie into the skin of one person.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

crampingadj.

Etymology: -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcramping.
1. That cramps or benumbs.
ΚΠ
1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. iii. §11 The Annular Fibres are contracted more narrowly, and after a cramping Manner.
1861 R. Swinhoe Narr. N. China Campaign 1860 369 Bearing well the violent heat of the Pekin summer and the cramping cold of its winter.
2. That cramps, or compresses and narrows.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [adjective]
strangling1606
straiteninga1652
fettery1654
cramp1786
cramping1788
astricting1837
strait-jacketing1950
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > of free action
strangling1606
straiteninga1652
fettery1654
cramp1786
cramping1788
astricting1837
strait-jacketing1950
1788 Trifler 158 No. xii Freed from the cramping bonds of slavery.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 30 The cramping influence of purely professional occupation.
1885 Ld. Tennyson Despair iv The cramping creeds that had madden'd the peoples.

Derivatives

ˈcrampingly adv. in a way that cramps or restricts free action.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [adverb] > closely (of confinement)
narroweOE
strictly1609
closely1634
crampingly1891
1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 189 The prison he was shut up in so closely and crampingly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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