clamor some (klamorsum)

[Also spelled (dial.) clammer some; Greedy; rapacious; contentious. Brockett. [Prov. Eng.] clamour, clamourer, etc. See clamor, etc. clamp1 (klamp), n. [First in early mod. E. (taking in part the place of the earlier clam1 ), after MD. klampe , a clamp, hook, tenon, grap ple, brace, D. klamp, a clamp, cleat, On, MLG klampe, a hook, clasp, G. dial. (Bav. and Austrian) klampfe, G. (after LG.) klampe = Dan. klampe = Sw. klamp (prob. after D.), a clamp, cleat (cf. MLG. klampe = East Fries. klampe, a bridge over a ditch); practically an extension or variant of the older clam1, q. v., but in form as if from the pret. of the verb represented by MHG. klimpfen (pret. klampf, pp. geklumpfen ), draw, pre , or hold fast together, which may be regarded as an extension of the orig. Teut. (Goth.) * kliman (AS. * climman ), pret. * klam, pre or adhere together, whence also clam1, q. v. The forms derived from or related to clamp i are numerous: see clam1, clam2, etc., clamp2, clamp3, etc., climb, clamber, etc. Cf. also clip1.) 1. An instrument of wood, metal, or other rigid material, used to hold anything, or to hold or fasten two or more things together by pre ure so as to keep them in the same relative position. Specifically-(a) In joinery: (1) An instrument of wood or metal used for holding glued pieces of timber closely together until the glue hardens. (2) A Cabinet-makers' Clamp. piece of wood fixed to another with a mortise and tenon, or groove and tongue, so that the fibers of the piece thus fixed cro those of the other and thereby prevent it from casting or warping. (b) Naut.: (1) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side used to sustain the ends of the beams. (2) Any plate of iron made to turn or open and shut so as to confine a spar or boom. (c) In leather - manuf., a wooden bench-screw with two cheeks, used to hold the leather se curely while it is stoned or slicked. (d) A metallic piece and binding-screw, shaped somewhat like a stirrup, used to hold one of the elements of a battery and complete the electric connection. (e) pl. A sort of strong pincers used by ship-carpenters for drawing nails. Also clams. 2. pl. The hinged plates over the trunnions of a gun: generally called cap- squares.-3. One of a pair of movable cheeks of lead or copper covering the jaws of a vise, and enabling it to grasp without bruising.-4. In bot., in the mycelium of fungi, a nearly semicircular cellular protuberance, like a short brauch, which springs from one cell of a filament close to a earth for winter keeping. [Prov. Eng.] clamp3+ (klamp), n. An obsolete form of clam3. Clam or clamp , a kind of shell-fish. Jo elyn (1672). clamp4 (klamp), v . i . [Appar. imitative; cf. clank , clump2 , tramp .] To tread heavily; tramp. Thackeray . The policeman with clamping feet.