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noun

Clamp n.

1.

Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

2.

(a)

An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

(b)

(Joinery) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.

3.

One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

4.

(Shipbuilding) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.

5.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.

6.

A mollusk. See Clam. (Obs.)

Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

Clamp n. A heavy footstep; a tramp.

verb

Clamp v. t. (past & past part. clamped; pres. part. clamping)

1.

To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.

2.

To cover, as vegetables, with earth. (Eng.)

Clamp v. i. To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. "The policeman with clamping feet."

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"Clamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... polished, forged steel runners, with blued steel plates and clamps. The Clamp and Strap Spring Skate is fastened to the foot by both clamps and straps. Send length of boot when ordering. ...

— The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers • Various

... must doubt whether what you now suggest will be as good as your first idea; to wit, to have every rail split into two pieces longitudinally, so that there shall be but the halves of the holes in each, and then to clamp the two halves together. The solidity of this method cannot be equal to that of the solid rail, and it increases the suspicious parts of the whole machine, which, in a first experiment, ought to be rendered as few as possible. But of all this the practical iron men are much better judges than ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... artery since the blood stream is coming that way—this the mother will note is the reverse from treating bleeding from a vein as previously explained. The artery at this point may be felt beating. It is frequently necessary to clamp the whole limb to stop an arterial hemorrhage. This may be done in the following manner. Take a strong piece of cloth or bandage and tie above the bleeding point. Insert a short piece of stick between the bandage and the limb and twist around until the ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

... window, and saw the mother-bird come fluttering in to feed her brood,—and yet I did not see it, although it seemed to me afterwards as if I could have drawn every fibre, every feather. I was stirred up to action by the merry sound of voices and the clamp of rustic feet coming home for the mid-day meal. I knew I must go down to dinner; I knew, too, I must tell Phillis; for in his happy egotism, his new-fangled foppery, Holdsworth had put in a P.S., saying that ...

— Cousin Phillis • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... UFO had actually seen something foreign to our knowledge and start assuming that he or she had. They wanted me to aim my investigation at trying to find out more about the UFO. Along with this switch in operating policy, they wanted to clamp down on the release of information. They thought that the security classification of the project should go up to Top Secret until we had all of the answers, then the information should be released to the public. ...

— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

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