The natural curliness of wool fibres.
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.
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.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
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.
A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.
The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.
A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.
Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.