crampet

English

Alternative forms

• crampette
• crampit

Etymology

cramp +‎ -et?

Noun

crampet (plural crampets)

1. (military) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
2. One of the metal plates, with spikes attached, forming a pair of crampons.
3. (curling) A metal plate for a player to stand on when delivering the stones.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crampet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)