clampering

clampering is the present participle and gerund of clamper.

Meaning of clamper

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
(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
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
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

clampering

A cacophony made by noisy movement.
- And should any of my readers find their spirits too ethereal, their souls too rapidly mounting on eagles' wings, I recoomend them to try the cooling sedative of six monghs' residence in a manufacturing town, amid the clanking, grinding, droning sound of factory machinery, the hammering of...1860, Walter Chamberlain, Isaiah's Call to England: being an exposition of Isaiah the eighteenth, page x
- Hush — there's a clampering in the trance. It's the rush o' critics frae the pit o' the theatre.1867, John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart, Noctes Ambrosianæ - Volume 1, page 409

clampering (comparative more clampering, superlative most clampering)

cacophonous; raucous.
- He had no sooner lifted up the square board, or door, than the cats all came in a head, leaped over him, put out the candle, and rushing among the affrighted servant's legs, threw one half of them down ; and having gained their liberty, made such a clampering, rattleing, and jingleing noise, as I...1833, John Close, The satirist: or, Every man in his humour, page 125
- Moreover it was decided by that tiresome Martha, the housemaid, that “Miss Lucy lugged the dirt in shameful 'with them nasty clampering boots, and it was one's work to clean the hall after her.”1864, Louis Sand, For Life: A Story : in Two Parts, page 16

comparative	more clampering
superlative	most clampering

What does clampering mean?: Clampering means a cacophony made by noisy movement.
What is clampering the present participle and gerund of?: Clampering is the present participle and gerund of clamper.
What part of speech is clampering?: Clampering can be a noun or an adjective.

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