Crimp Meaning in French

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1. (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
3. (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
4. (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
5. (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
6. (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
7. (v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
8. (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
9. (n.) A coal broker.
10. (v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
11. (n.) A game at cards.
12. (v. t.) In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.