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Wisconsin clamps down on Beasley, beats K-State for ticket to Detroit

USATODAY.com 2007

The only pots remaining were shaped by hand, and fired, not in kilns as in Roman times, but in open 'clamps' a smart word for a pile of pots in a bonfire. ...

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O'BRIEN: I'm not a particularly claustrophobic person, but yes, it kind of clamps you just like this, so I just closed my eyes, and the problem is, it really sounds a little bit like drilling over your head, so it's not that relaxing.

CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2007 2007

However, some traces of repairs (such as clamps holes cut onto the inscription of one architrave) indicate that parts of the portico had undergone subsequent damage and repairs, possibly already as the result of the earthquake around A.D.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Macellum Report 5 2003

It is evident that the best method of firing bricks is to place them in permanent kilns, but although such kilns were used by the Romans some 2000 years ago, the older method of firing in "clamps" is still employed in the smaller brickfields, in every country where bricks are made.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

After showing Ellesborough the way to the "clamps," Hastings left him.

Harvest Humphry Ward 1885

Rachel, busy with the covering of the potato "clamps," laid down the bundle of bracken she had been handing to Peter Betts, and came quickly to meet her visitor.

Harvest Humphry Ward 1885

Monsieur de Mirepoix sent a card lately to White's, to invite all the chess-players of both 'clamps'.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

It's somewhat workable but you have to be careful what kind of clamps you use on the fittings and you need to be mindful of their orientation during installation.

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LOL, you might need some kind of clamps to hold them back whilst you annoint.

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