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The cuckoopint.

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard. [Written also crampit and crampette.]

Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Shak. Is Pompey grown so malapert, so frampel Beau. & Fl.

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

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

to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder. The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance. Layard.

See Crampet.

ne 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.

Confined; cramped. [Prov. Eng.]

also rubstone. Rub iron, an iron guard on a wagon body, against which a wheel rubs when cramped too much.

clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules. M. Green.

k; I will wait till next week. He . . . came till an house. Chaucer. Women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo. Tennyson. Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings -- all through them till the very end. Prof. Wilson. Till now, to the present time. -- Till then, to th…

A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond. Halliwell.