Crimp - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: crimpCrimp
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...
Crimp
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...
Crimpage
The act or practice of crimping money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men...
Crape
A thin crimped stuff made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill Black crape is much used for mourning garments also for the dress of some clergymen...
crape jasmine
a tropical shrub Tabernaemontana divaricata native to India having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas Northern India to Thailand...
Crimper
One who or that which crimps...
Crimpy
Having a crimped appearance frizzly as the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep...
Gauffer
To plait crimp or flute to goffer as lace See Goffer...
Goffer
To plait flute or crimp See Gauffer...
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