资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cramped} (kr?mt; 215); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Cramping}.]
   1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and
      contract; to hinder.

            The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge
            as by ignorance.                      --Layard.

   2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.

   3. Hence, to bind together; to unite.

            The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped
            and bolted together in all its parts. --Burke.

   4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.

   5. To afflict with cramp.

            When the gout cramps my joints.       --Ford.

   {To cramp the wheels of wagon}, to turn the front wheels out
      of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be
      against the body of the wagon.