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Adjektiivit

  1. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
  2. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Substantiivit

  1. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
  2. An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. [Since the passing of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this Act, i.e. to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.]
  3. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A coal broker.
  4. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
  5. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
  6. (usually, in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
  7. (obsolete) A card game.

Verbit

  1. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
  2. To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
  3. To pinch and hold; to seize.
  4. To style hair into a crimp.
  5. To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwiches.

Esimerkit

  • Now the fowler [...] treads the crimp earth.
  • The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves.
  • The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
  • He crimped the wire in place.
  • When a master of a ship..has lost any of his hands, he applies to a crimp..who makes it his business to seduce the men belonging to some other ship.
  • Trepanned into the West India Company's service by the crimps or silver-coopers as a common soldier.
  • Offering three guineas ahead to the crimps for every good able seaman.
  • I hear there are plenty of good men stowed away by the crimps at different places.
  • Sallying forth at night..he came near being carried off by a gang of crimps.
  • In the high and palmy days of the crimp, the pirate, the press-gang.
  • Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. — Carlyle.
  • Plundering corn and crimping recruits.
  • Clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him.
  • The cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform..and sends them off to kill and be killed.
  • The Egyptian Government crimped negroes in the streets of Cairo.
  • Why not create customers in the Queen's dominions..instead of trying..to crimp them in other countries?

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfekticrimped
Imperfekticrimped
Partisiipin preesenscrimping
Monikkocrimps
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenscrimps