crimp

1. (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.plural-normally

2. (obsolete) A card game.Examples: "Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her."obsolete

3. (climbing) A small hold with little surface area.

4. (climbing) A grip on such a hold.

1. (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.Examples: "He crimped the wire in place."

2. (climbing) to hold using a crimp

1. (specifically, law) 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.specifically

2. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.obsolete

1. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.Examples: "[…]nay, where in any corner he can spy a tall man, clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him."; "To the Reverend Fathers, it seemed that Denis would make an excellent Jesuit; wherefore they set about coaxing and courting, with intent to crimp him."; "It appears that that officer, instead of attending to interesting events likely to occur in this quarter, is desirous of plundering corn and crimping recruits"Synonyms: shanghaitransitive