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.
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.