crimp

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.

To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.

To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

To pinch and hold; to seize.

to hold using a crimp

To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.

To bend or mold leather into shape.

To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

The natural curliness of wool fibres.

[usually plural] Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

A small hold with little surface area.

A grip on such a hold.

An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.

(no longer used) A card game.

(no longer used) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

(no longer used) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

(no longer used) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.