'Cramping' definitions:

Definition of 'Cramping'

From: GCIDE
  • Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cramped (kr[a^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramping.]
  • 1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder. [1913 Webster]
  • The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance. --Layard. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Hence, to bind together; to unite. [1913 Webster]
  • The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To afflict with cramp. [1913 Webster]
  • When the gout cramps my joints. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
  • To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon. [1913 Webster]

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