Word Direct Answers

What does "clamp" mean?

Clamp: (a) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. (b) (Joinery) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.

Additional senses

  1. 2.One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
  2. 3.(Shipbuilding) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustuan the ends of beams.
  3. 4.A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
  4. 5.A mollusk. See Clam. [Obs.] Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.
  5. 6.To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
  6. 7.To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [Eng.]
  7. 8.A heavy footstep; a tramp.
  8. 9.To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray.

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