Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
crampit. Planché .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
- noun (Curling) One of the plates of iron, with attached spikes, forming a pair of crampoons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military A
cramp iron or cramp ring; achape , as of ascabbard .
Etymologies
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cramp + -et?
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Examples
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The ivory knob, the brass crampet, the bamboo, the whalebone, the silk, were no sooner adverted to, than they were scientifically described.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall
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