Meaning

noun a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

noun a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued

noun a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together

originEtymology tree Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Frankish *krampōder. Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Middle Dutch crampeder. Old French crampebor. Middle English crampe English cramp From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.

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