clamper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From clamp + -er.
Base: clamp
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: clampers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clampers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clampering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clampered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clampered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, clamps.
pos: noun
examples: If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers.
gloss: An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
pos: noun
examples: 1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
Both divisions are provided with clampers, to steady them and their sledges on the irregular ice-surfaces […]
gloss: A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
pos: noun
gloss: To crimp.
pos: verb
examples: Scratch-cutters are used on the tenons to give them a rough glue-holding surface, the ends of tenons are then clampered a little so they will readily enter the hub-mortise.
The punch was then removed and the edge of the hole in the pad clampered.
An engineering unit faced with the problem of changing every time boring tool and clampering tool for reboring the cylinder and clampering the edges of bores of automobile cylinder blocks, which involved a huge waste of time.
A person with epilepsy, employed as a "Burrer B" — an individual who removes burrs and rough edges from commercial and industrial machine parts — uses hand tools, files, burr knives, scrapers, and clampering tools.
gloss: To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: But this Netherlands is the main bar; I have no pluck in me for such things at present — yet it must be clampered together in some shape, and shall if I keep wagging.
The ship's masts were oak and clampered together, nothing worth.
Unlike Foxe, who avoided extensive discussion of the Book of Common Prayer (already a source of contention among the Marian exiles) and devoted long, debunking discussions to the Roman service ( "declaring . . . how and by whom this popish or rather apish mass became so clampered and patched together with so many divers and sundry additions"— 6.368 ), Hooker takes the very form of the English prayerbook as the structural matrix for his argument and welcomes the papal origin of many of its elements.
gloss: To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.
pos: verb
examples: Eh! is nae that Ecclesfield's foot clampering wi' his spurs at the door?
A troop of Zurich yeomanry, having been reviewed, were "clampering," it could not be called prancing, on their great heavy steeds, through the town, to the great wonder and admiration of the idlers and their assistants, who were lounging about in considerable numbers.
But who is this, clampering in his hobnailed boots, in a state of mingled perplexity, perspiration, loquacity, hoarseness, velveteen, clasp-knife and bread and cheese ?
gloss: To complain in an irritating manner.
pos: verb
examples: Sir James Areskine also perceaving he prevailed nothing by clampering with the Bishop of Clogher, he desired to be reconciled to the Bishop, and soon after died at Dublin, where the Bishop of Clogher was requested by his sone and other friends to make his funeral sermon, and did (so) accordingly.
Delivered from the clampering clutch of self, we are built up into a re-collected consciousness of God.
But well he found that who is too busy in the foundation of a house may pull the building about his ears ; for the people, already tired with their own divisions (of which his clampering had been a principal nurse), and beginning now to espy a haven of rest, hated anything that should hinder them from it.
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