Noun: cramp
| Singular | cramp |
| Plural | cramps |
Sample Sentences
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He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.
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August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
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the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
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A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind. [1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:]
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How does it grate upon his thankleſs ear, / Crippling his pleaſures with the cramp of fear! [1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Truth”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 96:]
Nouns inflected like cramp
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *krampôder.
3. Frankish *krampōder.
4. Proto-Germanic *krampôder.
5. Middle Dutch crampeder.
6. Old French crampebor.
7. Middle English crampe
8. English cramp
9. From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop. See: Middle English Nouns '
crampe', English Nouns '
crop'.
Verbs referencing "cramp"
Spanish Nouns
calambre, German Nouns
Krempe.