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- Clamp - n. - Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
- Clamp - n. - An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
- Clamp - n. - A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
- Clamp - n. - 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.
- Clamp - n. - A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
- Clamp - n. - A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
- Clamp - n. - A mollusk. See Clam.
- Clamp - v. t. - To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
- Clamp - v. t. - To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
- Clamp - n. - A heavy footstep; a tramp.
- Clamp - v. i. - To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
- Clamped - imp. & p. p. - of Clamp
- Clamper - n. - An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.
- Clamping - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Clamp
- Vyce - n. - A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.
- Pinchcock - n. - A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
- Clamp - v. t. - To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.