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. Example: The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A card game.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. Example: Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. Example: He crimped the wire in place.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
(specifically) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
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