Crimp vs Crump - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
* J. Philips
(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
* Arbuthnot
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.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A coal broker.
(obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
(usually, in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
(obsolete) A card game.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To style hair into a crimp.
To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwiches.
An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. [Since the passing of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this Act, i.e. to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.]
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To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
(obsolete) crooked; bent
* Jeremy Taylor
The sound of a muffled explosion.
* 1929 , Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
* 1999 , Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
* 2000 , Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea
* 2008 , Paul Wood, BBC News.
To produce such a sound.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=William Grimes, title=In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy, work=New York Times
, passage=“Mortars crumped , and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.” }}
As an adjective crimp
is (obsolete) easily crumbled; friable; brittle.As a noun crimp
is 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 or crimp can be an agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc, especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them [since the passing of the merchant shipping act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this act, ie to a person other than the owner, master, etc, who engages seamen without a license from the board of trade].As a verb crimp
is to fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened or crimp can be to impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.As a proper noun crump is
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English
Etymology 1
(etyl) crempen, from (etyl) .Germanic etymology. Cognate to Dutch krimpen, via Middle Dutch crimpen, to Low German crimpen,
Origins, p. 130, by Eric Partridge and to Faroese . From or cognate to Old Norse kreppa. Possible cognate to cramp.
Adjective
- Now the fowler treads the crimp earth.
- The evidence is crimp ; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves.
Noun
(en noun)- The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp .
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Verb
(en verb)- He crimped the wire in place.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- When a master of a ship..has lost any of his hands, he applies to a crimp ..who makes it his business to seduce the men belonging to some other ship.
- Trepanned into the West India Company's service by the crimps or silver-coopers as a common soldier.
- Offering three guineas ahead to the crimps for every good able seaman.
- I hear there are plenty of good men stowed away by the crimps at different places.
- Sallying forth at night..he came near being carried off by a gang of crimps .
- In the high and palmy days of the crimp , the pirate, the press-gang.
Verb
(en verb)- Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. — Carlyle.
- Plundering corn and crimping recruits.
- Clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him.
- The cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform..and sends them off to kill and be killed.
- The Egyptian Government crimped negroes in the streets of Cairo.
- Why not create customers in the Queen's dominions..instead of trying..to crimp them in other countries?
References
crump
English
Etymology 1
Anglo-Saxon (crumb) stooping, bent down, akin to Old High German chrumb, (etyl) krumm, (etyl) krum, and English cramp.Adjective
(en adjective)- a crump loaf
- Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)- [hymn] "To an inheritance incorruptible . . . Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealed at the last trump." For "trump" we always used to sing "crump." A crump was German five-point-nine shell, and "the last crump" would be the end of the War.
- Crump , crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
- Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump .
Taking cover on Sderot front line
- "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump .
Verb
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