crimp

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

   “Now the Fowler […] Treads the crimp Earth,”

2. sıfat Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

   “The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves”

3. isim 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.

   “The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.”

4. isim The natural curliness of wool fibres.
5. isim Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
6. isim A card game.

   “Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.”

7. isim A small hold with little surface area.
8. isim A grip on such a hold.
9. fiil To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.

   “Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.”

10. fiil To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

    “He crimped the wire in place.”

11. fiil To pinch and hold; to seize.
12. fiil To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
13. fiil To bend or mold leather into shape.
14. fiil To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
15. fiil to hold using a crimp
16. isim An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

    “Indeed, when a maſter of a ſhip, ſuppoſe at Jamaica, hath loſt any of his hands, he applies of courſe to a crimp[…]who makes it his buſineſs to ſeduce the men belonging to ſome other ſhip,”

17. isim One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
18. isim A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
19. fiil To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

    “[…]nay, where in any corner he can spy a tall man, clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him.”