Definitions for clamps

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clamps clamp

Spelling: [klamp]

IPA: /klæmp/

Clamps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in clamps (aclmps).

Definitions for clamps

noun

1. a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
2. an appliance with opposite sides or parts that may be adjusted or brought closer together to hold or compress something.
3. one of a pair of movable pieces, made of lead or other soft material, for covering the jaws of a vise and enabling it to grasp without bruising.
4. Also called clamp rail. Carpentry. a rail having a groove or a number of mortises for receiving the ends of a number of boards to bind them into a flat piece, as a drawing board or door.
5. Nautical. a horizontal timber in a wooden hull, secured to ribs to support deck beams and to provide longitudinal strength. mast clamp.

Verb phrases

1. clamp down, to become more strict:
2. clamp down on, to impose or increase controls on.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten with or fix in a clamp.

Origin of clamps

1350-1400; Middle English (noun) Middle Dutch clampe clamp, cleat; cognate with Middle Low German klampe

Examples for clamps

Hamas has in the past worked to clamp down on factions firing projectiles, like Islamic Jihad and others.

The boards are then placed in a vise or clamp and allowed to remain there over night.

[Y]ou will know you have it right when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix.

Maynard left the clamp in place and managed to pull out the blade.

It's critical that suppliers do all they can to clamp down on electricity theft.

It was wuth ridin' a clamp from here to Mill Flat to hear her sing.

When the glue is dry, they are used as corners on which to clamp the handscrews.

Why not just clamp onto him, and keep track of him that way?

But in 1983, the Communist Party launched a Campaign against Spiritual Pollution, to clamp down on experimental art.

The clamp may be made of flat or round spring brass or bronze.