n. A claw; a paw.n. A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, etc.; a clamp; a cramp-iron. See cramp-iron.n. A bench-hook or holdfast.n. A portable kind of iron press, having a screw at one end and a movable shoulder at the other, employed by carpenters and joiners for closely compressing the joints of frame-work.n. 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.n. That which hinders motion or expansion; restraint; confinement; that which hampers.Contracted; strait; cramped.Difficult; knotty; hard to decipher, as writing; crabbed.To fasten, confine, or hold with a cramp-iron, fetter, or some similar device.To fashion or shape on a cramp: as, to cramp boot-legs.To confine as if in or with a cramp; hinder from free action or development; restrain; hamper; cripple.n. An involuntary and painful contraction of a muscle; a variety of tonic spasm.To affect with cramps or spasms.