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[Eng. crimp (2); -age.] The act or system of crimping; the money paid to a crimp for men shipped as sailors. crimped, pa.par. or a. [CRIMP, v.] crimp-er, s. [Eng. crimp; -er.] I. Ord. Lang.: One who or that which crimps. II. Technically : 1. Shoemaking : A curved board over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched, to give it the required shape. IMG:content-1331.png:[blocks in formation] inous guilt is the forfeiture of his right and claim to all "The punishment that belongs to that great and crim- mercies, which are made over to him by Christ."- Ham- mond. tion in woven wire-work. (2) A machine in which wire-cloth is crimped by pre ure between dies, each of which has projecting the other die. teeth which come opposite the interdental spaces of 5. Saddlery : A pre or break in which leather is molded into form between dies. IMG:content-1332.png:[blocks in formation] II. Technically : 1. The act or proce of crimping fish. 2. The act or system of decoying men into the naval or military services. "There was, in the Transatlantic po e ions of the crown, a great demand for labor; and this demand was partly supplied by a system of crimping and kidnapping at the principal English seaports."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. iii.