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The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in
his legs.

Sir T. More.

Cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; --
formerly used as a charm for the cramp. Halliwell.
"He could turn cramp bones into chess men."
Dickens. -- Cramp ring, a ring
formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as
having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good
Friday.

Cramp, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Cramped (kr&?;mt; 215); p. pr. & vb.
n. Cramping.] 1. To
compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract;
to hinder.

The mind my be as much cramped by too much
knowledge as by ignorance.

Layard.

2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a
cramp.

3. Hence, to bind together; to
unite.

The . . . fabric of universal justic is well
cramped and bolted together in all its parts.

Burke.

4. To form on a cramp; as, to
cramp boot legs.

5. To afflict with cramp.


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