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Crimp, one who decoys and plunders sailors under cover of harbouring them. As to the offence of 'crimping' under the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 215-218, see R. v. Abrahams, (1904) 2 KB 859; R. v. Goldberg, ibid., 866