单词 | cramping |
释义 | crampingn. 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. 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). < n.1641adj.1718 |
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