Usually means: Devices for holding objects securely.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. clamps: Merriam-Webster
  2. clamps: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clamps: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clamps, clamps: Wordnik
  5. clamps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clamps: Wiktionary
  7. clamps: Dictionary.com
  8. clamps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Clamps (Futurama): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. clamps: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Clamps (Cramps, Hold-fasts): Marquetry Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clamps: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clamps: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clamps: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. clamps: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. clamps: Idioms

(Note: See clamp as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Clamp)

noun:  A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
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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