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clamp

  [klamp]
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–noun
1. a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
2. an appliance with opposite sides or parts that may be adjusted or brought closer together to hold or compress something.
3. one of a pair of movable pieces, made of lead or other soft material, for covering the jaws of a vise and enabling it to grasp without bruising.
4. Also called clamp rail. Carpentry. a rail having a groove or a number of mortises for receiving the ends of a number of boards to bind them into a flat piece, as a drawing board or door.
5. Nautical.
a. a horizontal timber in a wooden hull, secured to ribs to support deck beams and to provide longitudinal strength.
b. mast clamp.
–verb (used with object)
6. to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
—Verb phrases
7. clamp down, to become more strict: There were too many tax loopholes, so the government clamped down.
8. clamp down on, to impose or increase controls on.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME (n.) < MD clampe clamp, cleat; c. MLG klampe

Synonyms:
6. clinch, clench, secure.
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clamp   (klāmp)   


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n.  

  1. Any of various devices used to join, grip, support, or compress mechanical or structural parts.

  2. Any of various tools with opposing, often adjustable sides or parts for bracing objects or holding them together.

tr.v.   clamped, clamp·ing, clamps

  1. To fasten, grip, or support with or as if with a clamp.

  2. To establish by authority; impose: clamped a tax on imports.

Phrasal Verb(s):
clamp downTo become more strict or repressive; impose controls: clamping down on environment polluters.

[Middle English, from Middle Dutch klampe.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

clamp  (n.)
1304, probably from clamb, orig. pt. of climb, or from M.Du. klampe, from W.Gmc. *klamp- "clamp, cleat." The verb is from 1677.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1clamp
Pronunciation: 'klamp
Function: noun
: any of various instruments or appliances having parts brought together for holding orcompressing something; especially : an instrument used to hold, compress, or crush vessels and hollow organs and to aid in surgical excision of parts

Main Entry: 2clamp
Function: transitive verb
: to fasten with or as if with a clamp clamped as usual and all excess stumpis cut off flush with the hysterectomy clamp —R. C. Long>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

clamp (klāmp)
n.
An instrument for the compression or grasping of a structure.

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