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Clamp   Listen
verb
Clamp  v. i.  To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. "The policeman with clamping feet."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Clamp" Quotes from Famous Books



... fireless cooker. When your oatmeal or your stew, or your chicken, or your vegetables have boiled ten or fifteen minutes on the stove in your agate pail, clap on its cover, set it into the nest, push the cushion into the top of the cooker, clamp down the lid, and your work is done, for the cooking will go merrily on all alone by itself in ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... him with a clamp on his thyroid. It's just as effective as wrapping your fingers around the throat. But Pheola upset the ...
— Vigorish • Gordon Randall Garrett

... as it comes from the manufacturer, there will be found a glass bottle, intended to hold the battery fluid when not in use; a glass cup or jar, to serve as the battery cell; a pair of insulated metallic conducting cords; two tin electrodes; a brass clamp; and, under the helix-box, (which raise), the battery metals and two connecting wires to unite ...
— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication • Daniel Clark

... from the door in a cold clamp of relief. The shadow of death hovered over these men. She must fortify herself to live under that shadow, to be prepared for any sudden violence, to stand a succession of shocks that inevitably would come. She listened. The men were talking and laughing now; there came a click of chips, ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey

... is," said Archer in his deep but somewhat shaky voice. "I've seen it in my nightmares. It was the iron clamp or prop on the pedestal, stuck on to keep the wretched image upright when it began to wobble, I suppose. Anyhow, it was always stuck in the stonework there; and I suppose it came ...
— The Man Who Knew Too Much • G.K. Chesterton

... enabling the clamps to hold more securely and (b) providing for the application of an antiseptic to the cord. For this purpose a dram of sulphate of copper may be mixed with an ounce of vaseline and pressed into the groove in the face of each clamp. In applying the clamp over the cord it should be drawn so close with pincers as to press out all blood from the compressed cord and destroy its vitality, and the cord applied upon the compressing clamps should be so hard-twined that it will not stretch later ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture



Words linked to "Clamp" :   inflict, impose, visit, pipe clamp, clinch, secure, C-clamp, pipe vise, press, fix, bring down, fasten, holding device, cramp, bench clamp, clamp down



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