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▸ noun: (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
▸ noun: (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
▸ noun: A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
▸ noun: (agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
▸ noun: A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
▸ noun: (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
▸ verb: (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
▸ verb: (UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
▸ verb: (transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
▸ noun: (dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
▸ noun: A surname.
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C-clamp,
pipe clamp,
vice grip,
spring clamp,
channel lock,
crescent wrench,
adjustable wrench,
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