Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cramped"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cramp \Cramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cramped} (kr?mt; 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cramped
adj : constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring
children up in cramped high-rise apartments"


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