Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See crampit. Planché.
Wiktionary
- n. military A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil.) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
- n. (Curling) One of the plates of iron, with attached spikes, forming a pair of crampoons. an iron plate for a player to stand on when delivering the stones.
Etymologies
- cramp + -et? (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The ivory knob, the brass crampet, the bamboo, the whalebone, the silk, were no sooner adverted to, than they were scientifically described.”
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