To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
to hold using a crimp
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
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.
A small hold with little surface area.
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A grip on such a hold.
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.
An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.