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Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Substantiivit
- 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.
- 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.]
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A coal broker.
- (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
- (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
- (usually, in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- (obsolete) A card game.
Verbit
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To style hair into a crimp.
- 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?
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