clamper verb 4noun 3forms 3 verb4 •To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.Eh! is nae that Ecclesfield's foot clampering wi' his spurs at the door? — 1823 •To crimp.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. — 1883 •To complain in an irritating manner.Delivered from the clampering clutch of self, we are built up into a re-collected consciousness of God. — 1933 •(no longer used) To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.But this Netherlands is the main bar; I have no pluck in me for such things at present — yet it must be clampered together in some shape, and shall if I keep wagging. — 1886 noun3 •One who, or that which, clamps.If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers. •A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform. •An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.Both divisions are provided with clampers, to steady them and their sledges on the irregular ice-surfaces […] — 1853 formsclampered · clampering · clampers
