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noun

Clamp n.

1.

Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

2.

(a)

An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

(b)

(Joinery) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.

3.

One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

4.

(Shipbuilding) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.

5.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.

6.

A mollusk. See Clam. (Obs.)

Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

Clamp n. A heavy footstep; a tramp.

verb

Clamp v. t. (past & past part. clamped; pres. part. clamping)

1.

To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.

2.

To cover, as vegetables, with earth. (Eng.)

Clamp v. i. To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. "The policeman with clamping feet."

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"Clamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... operation of welding it is necessary that the work be well supported in the position it should occupy. This may be done with fire brick placed under the pieces in the correct position, or, better still, with some form of clamp. The edges of the crack should touch each other at the point where welding is to start and from there should gradually separate at the rate of about one-fourth inch to the foot. This is done so that the cooling of the molten ...

— Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting • Harold P. Manly

... roosting close at hand. Putting two plain facts together it works out right natural and simple that he's on the square. As easy as that," he finished triumphantly. "So don't you fret. And in case he acts up I'll clamp down on him real sudden," he added by ...

— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts

... the sergeant heard Captain Archimbeau calling to his men to hurry. One ladder-bearer came clattering up; but the ladders were in six-foot lengths, and a single length was useless. Nevertheless, in his rage of haste, Corporal Sam seized it from the man, and was bending to clamp it over the pit, when from the parapet to the right a sudden cross-fire swept the head of the breach. A bullet struck him in the hand. He looked up, with the pain of it, in time to see Major Frazer spin about, topple past the sergeant's hand thrust out to steady him, and pitch headlong ...

— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... much of the finesse of the rogue elephant of later evolution. And Vogelstein's Semitism was of the archaic, potent, monumental type. His abundant fat looked hard. For all the sagging double chin, his jaw retained the character of a clamp. Among the strong race of art dealers he was feared. Whole collections not single objects were his quarry. He paid lavishly, foolishly, counting as confidently on the ignorance and vanity of his clients, as ever Morrison upon the brute expansion of the national wealth. But Vogelstein ...

— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather

... of logs split and hollowed with the axe, and placed side by side, so that the edges rest on each other; the concave and convex surfaces being alternately uppermost, every other log forms a channel to carry off the rain and melting snow. The eaves of this building resemble the scolloped edges of a clamp shell; but rude as this covering is, it effectually answers the purpose of keeping the interior dry; far more so than the roofs formed of bark or boards, through which the rain will find entrance. Sometimes the shanty has a window, sometimes only an open doorway, ...

— The Backwoods of Canada • Catharine Parr Traill

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