Definitions from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:
Clamp
(n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
(n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
(n.) A mollusk. See Clam.
(n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
(n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
(n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
(n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
(n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
(v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
(v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
(v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)
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