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Definition of Crampits
1. crampit [n] - See also: crampit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crampits
Literary usage of Crampits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1812)
"... with four sharp pikes below. They are bound to the sole of the shoe with a
strap and buckle. But as the use of crampits is now very much laid aside, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Sports: Or, Companion to the Field, the Forest, and the by Harry Harewood (1835)
"Formerly, that the players might be able to stand firm, when they threw the
stones, they used to wear crampits, which are flat pieces of iron, ..."
3. An Account of the Game of Curling, with Songs for the Canon-Mills Curling Club by John Ramsay (1882)
"stand firm, when they threw the stones, they used to wear crampits, ... But as
the use of crampits is now very much laid aside, a longitudinal hollow is ..."
4. Publications by Scottish History Society (1894)
"030 27 to ye smith at blackball for making 3 crampits to a sled . . . . .036 to
Jonie rob for killing ye veill . .020 30 * to the man let us out at ye west ..."
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