CLAMP

(From the French.) In Architecture, a piece of wood fixed to another with a mortise and tenon, or a groove and tongue, so that the fibres of the piece thus fixed cro those of the other, and thereby prevent it from casting or warping. Clamp. In Brickmaking, a large ma of bricks, generally quadrangular on the plan, and 6, 7, or 8 feet high, arranged in the brick field for burning, which is effected by flues prepared in stacking the clamp, and breeze or cinders layed between each course of bricks. [s. 250]