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** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], [dum], from [en] (compare related [ang]).[1] Cognate
with [nl], [nds-de],[2] [fo], and [is]. Compare also derivative [enm] and
causative [enm], both ultimately derived from the same root. See also [en].
**** Adjective
[?]
1. [en] Easily crumble d; friable ; brittle .
2. * [en]
3. [en] Weak; inconsistent ; contradictory .
4. * [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. 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 indentation s to capture the parts.
2. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
3. [en] Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks .
4. [en] A card game .
5. * [act=II]
6. [en] A small hold with little surface area .
7. [en] A grip on such a hold.
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Descendants
- [cy]
***** Translations
[fastener or method]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat , to corrugate .
2. * [en]
3. [en] To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
4. To pinch and hold ; to seize .
5. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky .
6. To bend or mold leather into shape.
7. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
8. [en] to hold using a crimp
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|crimpage|crimple|crimpness|crimpy|uncrimp |crimper|crimping
tool|crimping house|crimping pin|crimping pliers}}
***** Translations
[to fasten by bending metal]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] ,
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to style hair into a grimp]
- Catalan: [ca]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
[en]. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not
clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.[3]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. An agent who procure s seamen , soldiers , etc., especially by decoying , entrap ping, impress ing [,] or seducing them.
2. * [en]
3. * [page=159]
4. * [volume=II]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. [en] One who infringes sub-section 1 of the [Merchant Shipping Act 1854] , applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the [Board of Trade] .
10. [en] A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrant s are entrapped and fleece d.
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap , to decoy .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
*** Further reading
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*** References
References:
[1]. [year=2003]
[2]. [Eric Partridge] (1966), _Origins: An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English_ , p. 130 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=xA9dxrhfa5kC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130) .
[3]. [entry=crimp]
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Online Etymology Dictionary]
- [R:OneLook]
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