A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
That which confines or contracts.
A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
To form on a cramp.
To affect with cramps or spasms.
To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
To prohibit movement or expression of.
To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
To bind together; to unite.
A sudden sharp pain.
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.