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 Cramp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cramped (krămt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Cramping.]
 1. To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
    The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.   --Layard.
 2. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
 3. Hence, to bind together; to unite.
    The . . . fabric of universal justic is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.   --Burke.
 4. To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
 5. To afflict with cramp.
    When the gout cramps my joints.   --Ford.
 To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.