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noun

Crimp n.

1.

A coal broker. (Prov. Eng.)

2.

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

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.)

Boot crimp. See under Boot.

verb

Crimp v. t. (past & past part. crimped; pres. part. crimping)

1.

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

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."

4.

(Cookery) 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.

5.

(Firearms) In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.

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.

adjective

Crimp adj.

1.

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. (R.) "Now the fowler... treads the crimp earth."

2.

Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. (R.) "The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves."

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Etymology of 'Crimp'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crimp" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough boiling water to dissolve it. When dissolved, add enough alcohol to make it rather thin. Let this stand all night and then bottle it to prevent the alcohol from evaporating. This put on the hair at night, after it is done up in papers or pins, will make it stay in crimp the hottest day, and ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... did not ship you, as I was not in the shipping office; but I bargained with a crimp for sixteen men, and he gave me fourteen ...

— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson

... year, chestnut seed was stratified in perforated cans in the open ground with fairly good results. Last fall, we tried the method used and described by Dr. Crane and Dr. McKay in the 1946 report of this Association. Crimp top cans were used with nail holes in the top and bottom. Instead of using regular storage facilities, the cans were stored in a concrete block storage pit built below the floor of the garage. This proved very successful. Not only were the nuts ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

... growing boy, with a growing boy's appetite; consequently on the morning of his second day of fasting he came to the conclusion that, with so much of his life before him, a few months wasted would, after all, have no material bearing on his future; so he accepted a two months advance from a crimp and shipped aboard the American barkentine Retriever as a common A.B.—a most disgraceful action on the part of a boy, who, since eighteenth birthday, had been used to having old sailors touch their foretop to him and address him as "Mr. ...

— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne

... thus we parted. But two days ago, when Sir Geoffrey Kneller's pictures were to be sold, she went to my sister Gower, and very civily asked if she intended to bid for your picture; assuring her that, if she did, she would not offer at purchasing it. You know crimp and quadrille incapacitate that poor soul from ever buying any thing; but she told me this circumstance; and I expected the same civility from Mrs. Murray, having no way provoked her to the contrary. But she not only came to the auction, but with all possible spite ...

— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville

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