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crame
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?m
Etymology 1
From Scots crame, craim, from Middle Dutch kraeme or Middle Low German krame; both from Old High German kr?m (“merchant tent; tent cloth”), probably ultimately borrowed from Slavic, such as Old Church Slavonic gram? (gram?, “pub, inn”) or ?r?m? (?r?m?, “tent”).
Compare West Frisian kream, Dutch kraam, German Low German Kraam, German Kram, Swedish kram, Icelandic kram.
Noun
crame (plural crames)
- (chiefly Scotland) A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall
- (chiefly Scotland) A parcel of goods for sale; a peddler's pack; a kit
References
Etymology 2
Variant of cram.
Verb
crame
- Archaic spelling of cram.
Anagrams
- Carme, McRae, cream, crema, macer, recam
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: crament, crames
Verb
crame
- first-person singular present indicative of cramer
- third-person singular present indicative of cramer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cramer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cramer
- second-person singular imperative of cramer
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cramp
English
Etymology
From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-Germanic *kramp? (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?æmp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
cramp (countable and uncountable, plural cramps)
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
- August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
- the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
- August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
- That which confines or contracts.
- Synonyms: restraint, shackle, hindrance
- 1782, William Cowper, Truth
- crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
cramp (third-person singular simple present cramps, present participle cramping, simple past and past participle cramped)
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
- 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
- The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
- 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
- (transitive, figuratively) To prohibit movement or expression of.
- 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
- But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side
- 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
- (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
- 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
- when the gout cramps my joints
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
- 1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics
- The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
- 1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics
- To form on a cramp.
Derived terms
- cramp someone's style
Translations
Adjective
cramp (comparative more cramp, superlative most cramp)
- (archaic) cramped; narrow
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cramp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- cramp at OneLook Dictionary Search
Manx
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
cramp
- intricate, complex
Derived terms
- neuchramp
Mutation
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