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crimp englanniksi
(quote-book) Treads the crimp Earth,
Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
(quote-book)
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.
(ux)
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A game.
(RQ:Jonson Magnetic Lady)
A grip on such a hold.
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 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.
to hold using a crimp
An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing{{, or seducing them.
(quote-book)who makes it his buſineſs to ſeduce the men belonging to ſome other ſhip,|pageurl=https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=mzNkAAAAcAAJ
(RQ:Franklin Autobiography)
(RQ:Stedman Surinam)
(quote-journal)he came near being carried off by a gang of crimps
(quote-journal) romance of the sea|journal=The Spectator|volume=60|page=691|passage=''The World Went Very Well Then''—in the high and palmy days of the crimp, the pirate, the press-gang, and the smuggler—is a case in point.
One who infringes sub-section 1 of the (w), applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the (w).
A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
(syn)
(quote-journal)nay, where in any corner he can spy a tall man, clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him.
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(quote-book)|title=The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington during his Various Campaigns|page=235-6|text=It appears that that officer, instead of attending to interesting events likely to occur in this quarter, is desirous of plundering corn and crimping recruits|volume=9|editor=John Gurwood