clampered

Verb

clamper (third-person singular simple present clampers, present participle clampering, simple past and past participle clampered)

1. 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
2. (obsolete) 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
3. 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
4. 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

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