crampon
/ˈkrampɒn
/ /ˈkrampən/noun (usually crampons)
1A metal plate with spikes fixed to a boot for walking on ice or rock climbing.To scale the 35 metres you need climbing boots, crampons, two ice axes, a helmet, a harness, plus a head for heights....
- We put crampons over our boots, roped up and ascended the ice cliff in single file, using our ice picks to stabilize us at each step.
- In fact, you'd probably need crampons in order to walk.
2 archaic term for grappling hook.
Origin
Middle English (in sense 2): from Old French, of Germanic origin.
Rhymes
- polymitosis
- polymitotic
- polymodal
- polymodality
- polymodally
- polymolecular
- polymolecularity
- polymolecule
- polymorph
- polymorphemic
- polymorphic
- polymorphically
- polymorphism
- polymorphocellular
- polymorphonuclear
- polymorphonucleate
- polymorphonucleated
- polymorphous
- polymorphously
- polymorphously perverse
- polymorphousness
- polymorphous perverse
- polymorphous perversity
- polymorph-perverse
- polymorphy