cramp
suomi-englanti sanakirjacramp englannista suomeksi
vetää suonta, krampata, kouristaa
jarruttaa, estää
ruuvipuristin
lihaskramppi, kramppi, suonenveto, kouristus
sinkilöidä
sinkilä
Substantiivi
Verbi
cramp englanniksi
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
August 1534, Margaret Roper (or (w) in her name), ''letter to Alice Alington''
- the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
That which confines or contracts.
(syn)
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
To affect with cramps or spasms.
1936, Heinrich Hauser, ''Once Your Enemy'' (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
- The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
To prohibit movement or expression of.
(ux)
{{quote-text|en|year=1853|author=Austen Henry Layard|title=Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
''You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.''
(quote-text)|title=Perkin Warbeck
To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a iron.
To bind together; to unite.
{{quote-text|en|year=1780|author=Edmund Burke|title=s:The World's Famous Orations/Volume 6/Principles in Politics|Principles in Politics
To form on a cramp.
(quote-book) the result was those folio volumes of MSS. now in the British Museum, in which inquirers into the history of that period find so much interesting material in such a confused state and in such a dreadfully cramp handwriting.