CRAMP, noun 1. Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness. 2. Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion. A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. 3. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, etc.; a cramp-iron. CRAMP, verb transitive 1. To pain or affect with spasms. 2. To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius. 3. To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron. CRAMP, adjective Difficult; knotty. [Little used.]
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