Word Meanings - CRIMPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, crimps; as: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

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• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• CRIMPY
  Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.
• CRIMPER
  One who, or that which, crimps; as: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
• CRIMPAGE
  The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• DEVICEFUL
  Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVE
  A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line. Axis of a curve. See under Axis. -- Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing , the process of determining the shape, location,
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• CURVATE; CURVATED
  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• REQUIRER
  One who requires.
• RUFFLER
  1. One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton. 2. That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• CHESSBOARD
  The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• ABOARD
  On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.