clamper
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.12 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who, or that which, clamps.
noun
An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
verb
To crimp.
verb
To complain in an irritating manner.
Example Sentences
- "If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers."
- "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 […]"
- "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."
Etymology
From clamp + -er.