plural of crimping

(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. / (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. / (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. / To pinch and hold; to seize.

An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

(transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

simple past tense and past participle of crimp

With a crimp in it; crushed shut.

plural of crimp

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crimp