[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cramp \cramp\ kra^mp, n. oe. crampe, craumpe; akin to d. 
   sw. kramp, dan. krampe, g. krampf whence f. crampe, icel.
   krappr strait, narrow, and to e. crimp, crumple; cf. cram.
   see grape.
   1. that which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle;
      a hindrance.
      1913 webster

            a narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
                                                  --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

            crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear.
                                                  --cowper.
      1913 webster

   2. masonry a device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used
      to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp
      iron.
      1913 webster

   3. carp. a rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used
      for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
      1913 webster

   4. a piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of
      the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather
      of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
      1913 webster

   5. med. a spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of
      a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
      1913 webster

            the cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
                                                  --sir t. more.
      1913 webster

   6. med. a paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive
      use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, etc.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a
      charm for the cramp. --halliwell. "he could turn cramp
      bones into chess men." --dickens.

   cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in
      averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by
      one of the kings of england on good friday.
      1913 webster
see also:
grape cramp bone cramp ring 

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