Middle English Dictionary Entry
clamp n.
Entry Info
| Forms | clamp n. |
| Etymology | MDu. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) [cp. crampe n.(2)] A clamp or brace; ~ clout, ?a piece of iron used as a brace or clamp; (b) at a ~, ?all at once; (c) [cp. crampe n.(1)] pang, twinge.
Associated quotations
a
- (1304) Doc.Manor in MP 3453 : Clampclute.
- (1402) *Acc.Exch.K.R.43/6.m.2 [OD col.] : Expenditis in tonges, clampes et aliis necessariis.
- ?a1425(?a1350) SLeg.Guth.(Jul D.9)127 : Þe cheynes of helle þo þis godman ysey..And clampes of yre.
- (1454) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)337/15 : Led to shete wiþ clampis.
- (1476-78) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.3231 : Payd to Rolf the Smyth for..A lok and a bolstar & ij Clampes for the pew..; for ij Clampys of Iren for pewes.
b
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3263 : All werdly þing..þurȝe þe will of oure lord In-to þe contrare clene is at a clamp [vr. clampe] turned.
c
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)23.82 : Kynde..cam out of þe planetes, And sente forþ his fereours, feuers and fluxes, Couhes and cardiacles, claumpes [vrr. crampes, crumpis, crompus] and toþ-aches.