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Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- Crab"bed*ly, adv. -- Crab"bed*ness, n.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped. I. Taylor. Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. Shak.

ck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. Holland.

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

One who defends; a defender. The rampiers and ditches which the defendants had cast up. Spotswood.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent. [Obs.] Frampton.

A cramp.

Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. Wilhelm.

made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

nished, or saturated, with waterproof material, for covering floors; oilcloth. -- Floor cramp, an implement for tightening the seams of floor boards before nailing them in position. -- Floor light, a frame with glass panes in a floor. -- Floor plan. (a) (Shipbuilding) A longitudinal section, showing a ship as divide…

To tread under foot; to trample. King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.

lace; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.

To tread down; to trample upon. [Obs.] In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils. Chaucer.

A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

d glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. Farrow.