crimp

Etymology 1
From, from , , from (compare related 🇨🇬). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. Compare also derivative 🇨🇬 and causative, both ultimately derived from the same root. See also.

Adjective

 * 1)  Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
 * 2)  Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
 * 1)  Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.



Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) The natural curliness of wool fibres.
 * 3)  Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
 * 4)  A card game.
 * 5)  A small hold with little surface area.
 * 6)  A grip on such a hold.
 * 1)  A small hold with little surface area.
 * 2)  A grip on such a hold.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1) To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
 * 2)  To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
 * 3) To pinch and hold; to seize.
 * 4) To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
 * 5) To bend or mold leather into shape.
 * 6) To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
 * 7)  to hold using a crimp
 * 1) To bend or mold leather into shape.
 * 2) To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
 * 3)  to hold using a crimp

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Czech: nalisovat
 * French:
 * German: crimpen,, ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ponchar


 * Catalan:
 * German:

Etymology 2
. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.

Noun

 * 1) An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
 * 2)  One who infringes sub-section 1 of the, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the.
 * 3)  A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
 * 1)  One who infringes sub-section 1 of the, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the.
 * 2)  A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
 * 1)  One who infringes sub-section 1 of the, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the.
 * 2)  A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
 * 1)  One who infringes sub-section 1 of the, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the.
 * 2)  A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
 * 1)  A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Verb

 * 1)  To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.