Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗cramped; narrow
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction. · That which confines or contracts. · A clamp for carpentry or masonry. · A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably. · To affect with cramps or spasms. · To prohibit movement or expression of. · To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Frankish *krampōder. Proto-Germanic *krampôder. Middle Dutch crampeder. Old French crampebor. Middle English crampe English cramp From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.
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