scrimp

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Leaving the grip at the back it passes over leading-off rollers, FF, and the scrimp or opening rail, G, and thence downward to the winding-on center, which cannot be seen.

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  1. intransitive verb To economize severely.
  2. transitive verb To be excessively sparing with or of.
  3. transitive verb To cut or make too small or scanty.

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  • Wealthy enough to make sure that you never again have to scrimp or sacrifice or go hungry on my account. —  NOBODY'S DARLING
  • We scrimp, save and salvage any way we can but your donations really help us out.
  • It is just tough to scrimp and skimp when you think you have squeezed all you can out of your little budget! —  Everyone's Blog Posts - A Virtuous Woman
  • This year won't scrimp on the automotive goodness either. —  KSAT.com - Local News
  • McCAUGHEY: Let's scrimp on the things that we don't need to save our lives. —  Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
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scrimp:   scrimped ·  scrimping
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  1. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish skrympa, to shrink.

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  1. Also skrimp, assibilated shrimp; from Middle English *scrimpen, from Anglo-Saxon *scrimpan (preterit *scramp, past participle *scrumpen) = Old Swedish *skrimpa (in past participle skrumpen = Danish skrumpen, adjective, shrunken, shriveled) = Middle High German schrimpfen, shrink; equivalent to Anglo-Saxon scrimman (preterit *scram, past participle *scrummen), shrivel, shrink, and akin to scrincan, shrink: see shrink. Scrimp exists also in the assibilated form shrimp, and the secondary forms shram, scrump, shrump, these forms being related as crimp, cramp, crump, which may, indeed, assuming a loss of initial s, be of the same origin. With crimp, crimple, crumple may be compared rimple, rumple.
  2. from scrimp, v.
 

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