clamp coupling (klampkupling)

A device for uniting the ends of a shaft by means of conical binding-sleeves, which by longitudinal motion wedge themselves between the shaft ends and an outer cylinder, thus binding the whole together. clamp-dog (klamp'dog), n. A clamp which serves as a connection between a piece which is to be turned and the face plate or spindle of a lathe, com pelling the work to partake of the motion of the head-spindle. clamper (klam'per), n. A contrivance consisting of a frame of iron having sharp prongs on the lower part, fastened to the sole of the shoe or boot, to prevent slipping on the ice. Also called creeper, and in the United States calk. Clamp-dog. clamping (klam'ping), n. [Verbal n. of clamp2, v.] The proce of burning bricks in a clamp. The proce called clamping so common, and practised largely both in this country and in some parts of Great Britain remote from London, is usually a method of burning bricks by placing them in a temporary kiln, the walls of which are generally built of "green" or unburned bricks. C. T. Davis, Bricks, etc., p. 57.