Crimp

/kɹɪmp/ · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
3. 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.
4. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
5. (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
6. (obsolete) A card game.
7. (climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
8. (climbing) A grip on such a hold.

Example Sentences

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.

Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.

Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.

Casino employees and Gaming Control Board agents placed the table under observation. The deck in play was exchanged for a new deck, and the used deck was found to contain many crimped cards.

He crimped the wire in place.

Indeed, when a maſter of a ſhip, ſuppoſe at Jamaica, hath loſt any of his hands, he applies of courſe to a crimp[…]who makes it his buſineſs to ſeduce the men belonging to ſome other ſhip,

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Word Forms

• crimps
• crimping
• crimped

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