Crimp Meaning in German
You have searched the English word crimp meaning in German fälteln. crimp meaning has been search 3898 (three thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight) times till 4/19/2024. You can also find crimp meaning and Translation in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, French and other languages.
Definition & Synonyms
• Crimp
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
- (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
- (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
- (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
- (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
- (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.
- (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
- (n.) A coal broker.
- (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.
- (n.) A game at cards.
- (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.
Multi Language Dictionary