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verb
Crimp  v. t.  (past & past part. crimped; pres. part. crimping)  
1.
To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp. "The comely hostess in a crimped cap."
2.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
3.
Hence, To entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. "Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him."
4.
(Cookery) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
5.
(Firearms) In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.
Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers.
Crimping iron.
(a)
An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair.
(b)
A crimping machine.
Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles, leather, iron, etc.
Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.





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"Crimp" Quotes from Famous Books



... take such complaints to the office. I never approached the boss with a demand that I did not think was right. Some of the men thought we ought to be vindictive and take every opportunity to put a crimp in the business for the owners. I envied the owners (we've all got a touch of that in our system), because they were rich and were making profits. I knew what their profits averaged. By calling fussy little strikes often enough I could have kept the profits close to the zero mark. Thus the men ...
— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis
... the old lady bade him; and, although she lamented grievously, meanwhile, that there was not even time to crimp the little frill that bordered his shirt-collar; he looked so delicate and handsome, despite that important personal advantage, that she went so far as to say: looking at him with great complacency from head to foot, that ...
— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens
... of Mary Ann, here's one roping that won't be an undiluted pleasure. Now listen. I'm something of a high private, when it comes to war, but no man is much more than one man, if the other side's blood is bad. Give 'em to me cold, and I can throw a crimp into 'em, for I don't care a hoot at any stage of the game, and they do. But when they're warm—why, a hole between the eyes will stop me just as quick as though I wasn't Chantay Seeche Red. Are you with me? You never took longer chances in ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips
... for a boy of my size, and I saw things that I shouldn't have seen—a docker crushed upon one of the docks and brought out on a stretcher dead, a stoker as drunk as though he were dead being wheeled on a wheelbarrow to a ship by the man called a "crimp," who sold this drunken body for an advance on its future pay. Sam told me in detail of these things. There came a strike, and once in the darkness of a cold November twilight I saw some dockers rush on a "scab," I heard the dull sickening thumps as ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole


Words linked to "Crimp" :   plication, angularity, frizz, pleat, kink, wave, fold up, bend, twist, ringlet, crimper, kiss curl, angular shape, snatcher, curl, ruck, abductor, whorl, crape, turn up, kidnapper, frizzle, crease, plait, kink up, twirl, fold, kidnaper, pinch, spit curl


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