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crimping houses

crimping houses is the plural of crimping house.

Meaning of crimping house

Noun

crimping house (plural crimping houses)

  1. (historical) A (usually low-rise) building into which men were decoyed and plied with alcoholic drink to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers.
    • Under pretense of taking up mendicants and vagabonds, they had scoured the streets at night, seizing upon honest mechanics, or their sons, and hurrying them to their crimping-houses, for the sole purpose of extorting money from them as a ransom.1820, Washington Irving, The Crayon Papers

Questions about crimping houses

What is crimping houses the plural of?
Crimping houses is the plural of crimping house.

Words near crimping houses in the dictionary

  1. crimper
  2. crimpers
  3. crimpiness
  4. crimping
  5. crimping house
  6. crimping houses
  7. crimping pin
  8. crimping pins
  9. crimping pliers
  10. crimping tool
  11. crimping tools

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