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Clamp   /klæmp/   Listen
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



... Dominie," confessed the candid youth. "But you're quite right. I'll clamp on the brakes. I'll be as cool and conventional as a slice of lemon on an iced clam. 'How well you're looking to-night, Miss Leffingwell'—that'll be my nearest approach to unguarded personalities. Trust me, Dominie, and thank you ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... opposite my 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 he should send wedding-cards to me and some other ...
— Cousin Phillis • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... into a figure with three heads and with six arms, and swung three gold-clamp rods. And thus they began to fight. Their blows rained down with such rapidity that it seemed as though thousands of weapons were flying through the air. After thirty rounds the combat had not ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various
... that was Ventnor turned to me; was arrested by the sight of the flitting pair ahead. I saw the fleshless jaws clamp, then ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt
... with all this mystic business? We've got mentacoms. Why not just clamp onto him, and keep track of him that way? It'd be a lot simpler. Less chance of ...
— The Players • Everett B. Cole


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