CRIMP

crimp

(noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled

crimp, crimper

(noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers

fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend

(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding; “a fold in the napkin”; “a crease in his trousers”; “a plication on her blouse”; “a flexure of the colon”; “a bend of his elbow”

crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink

(verb) curl tightly; “crimp hair”

crimp, pinch

(verb) make ridges into by pinching together

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Adjective

crimp

(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Noun

crimp (plural crimps)

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.

The natural curliness of wool fibres.

(usually, in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

(obsolete) A card game.

Verb

crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.

To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

crimp (plural crimps)

An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc, especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

(specifically, legal) 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.

(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Verb

crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)

(transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

Source: Wiktionary

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Crimp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimped (krmt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimping.] Etym: [Akin to D. krimpen to shrink, shrivel, Sw. krympa, Dan. krympe, and to E. cramp. See Cramp.]

1. To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy apperance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp. The comely hostess in a crimped cap. W. Irving.

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. Carlyle.

4. (Cookery)

Definition: 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. 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.

Crimp, a.

1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.] Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.

2. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.] The evidance is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves. Arbuthnot.

Crimp, n.

1. A coal broker. [Prov. Eng.] De Foe.

2. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. Marryat.

3. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

4. Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.

5. A game at cards. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Boot crimp. See under Boot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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