Spasm; the contraction of a limb, or some muscle of the body, attended with pain, and sometimes with convulsions, or numbness.

Restraint; confinement; that which hinders from motion or expansion. A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.

A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones; a cramp-iron.

To pain or affect with soasms.

To confine; to restrain; to hinder from action or expansion; as, to cramp the exertions of a nation; to cramp the genius.

To fasten, confine or hold with a cramp or cramp-iron.

Difficult; knotty.