Definitions for clamps
clamps

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1. clamps

   Pieces of timber applied to a mast or yard, to prevent the wood from bursting. Also, thick planks lying fore and aft under the beams of the first orlop or second deck, the same as the rising-timbers are to the deck. They are securely fayed to all the timbers, to which they are fastened by nails through the clamp, and penetrating two-thirds of the thickness of the timbers. Also, substantial strakes, worked inside, on which the ends of the beams rest. Also, smooth crooked plates of iron forelocked upon the trunnions of cannon; these, however, are more properly termed cap-squares. (See CARRIAGE.) Also, any plate of iron made to open and shut, so as to confine a spar. A one-cheeked block; the spar to which it is fastened being the other cheek.--To clamp, is to unite two bodies by surfaces or circular plates.--Clamped, is when a piece of board is fitted with the grain to the end of another piece of board across the grain.

How to pronounce clamps?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say clamps in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of clamps in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of clamps in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of clamps in a Sentence

1. Danielle Foltz:

   How do you find the words to describe the most horrific event in your life, your personal valley of the shadow of death ? because that is exactly the feeling that clamps your heart when you are at a place where the medication needed to rescue your child is out of reach.

2. Udio Katzanel:

   Katzanel told CEN. Katzanel and a team of surgeons used an endoscopic device to examine Talia’s throat then used micro-surgical clamps to remove it carefully. Luckily, the pendant had not caused any damage to her throat and nearby organs.

3. Reed Olmstead:

   Oil is stuck in upper $50s, it clamps down on how much more these operators can grow.

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1. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
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