clamper
clamper noun: one who, or that which, clamps.
Noun
clamper (plural clampers)
- One who, or that which, clamps.
- If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers.
- An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
- Both divisions are provided with clampers, to steady them and their sledges on the irregular ice-surfaces […]1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
- A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
Verb
clamper (third-person singular simple present clampers, present participle clampering, simple past and past participle clampered)
- To crimp.
- Scratch-cutters are used on the tenons to give them a rough glue-holding surface, the ends of tenons are then clampered a little so they will readily enter the hub-mortise.1883, Pamphlets on Forestry - Volume 11, page 20
- The punch was then removed and the edge of the hole in the pad clampered.1900, The Age of Steel - Volume 88, page 15
- To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.
- But this Netherlands is the main bar; I have no pluck in me for such things at present — yet it must be clampered together in some shape, and shall if I keep wagging.1886, Thomas Carlyle, edited by Charles Eliot Norton, Early Letters of Thomas Carlyle, volume 1, page 359
- The ship's masts were oak and clampered together, nothing worth.1894, Publications of the Navy Records Society, volume 2, page 298
- To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.
- Eh! is nae that Ecclesfield's foot clampering wi' his spurs at the door?1823, John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize; Or, The Times of the Convenanters, page 197
- A troop of Zurich yeomanry, having been reviewed, were "clampering," it could not be called prancing, on their great heavy steeds, through the town, to the great wonder and admiration of the idlers and their assistants, who were lounging about in considerable numbers.1838, John Roby, Seven weeks in Belgium, Switzerland, Lombardy, Piedmont, Savoy
- To complain in an irritating manner.
- Sir James Areskine also perceaving he prevailed nothing by clampering with the Bishop of Clogher, he desired to be reconciled to the Bishop, and soon after died at Dublin, where the Bishop of Clogher was requested by his sone and other friends to make his funeral sermon, and did (so) accordingly.1844, The Spottiswoode Miscellany, page 149
- Delivered from the clampering clutch of self, we are built up into a re-collected consciousness of God.1933, International Journal of Religious Education, volume 10, page 5
clamper meaning in Urdu
clamper in Urdu
- شکنجہ
Synonyms of clamper
Forms of clamper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | clampers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | clampers |
| present participle | clampering |
| past participle | clampered |
| past | clampered |
Origin of clamper
From clamp + -er.
Questions about clamper
- What does clamper mean?
- Clamper means one who, or that which, clamps.
- What is clamper in Urdu?
- Clamper in Urdu is شکنجہ. See Clamper meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is clamper?
- Clamper can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of clamper?
- The plural of clamper is clampers.
Words near clamper in the dictionary
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