Crossword-Solution: CLAMP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Clamp | n. | Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together. |
| Clamp | n. | An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. |
| Clamp | n. | A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen. |
| Clamp | n. | One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising. |
| Clamp | n. | A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams. |
| Clamp | n. | A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking. |
| Clamp | n. | A mollusk. See Clam. |
| Clamp | v. t. | To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp. |
| Clamp | v. t. | To cover, as vegetables, with earth. |
| Clamp | n. | A heavy footstep; a tramp. |
| Clamp | v. i. | To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. |
We have 173 clues for the answer “CLAMP”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "CLAMP"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
13 +1
New Suggestion for "CLAMP"
Related word tools
Sentences with CLAMP (5)
But I noticed, as I turned my torch on the ground, that from the clamp which I had shattered a brass rod sunk in the floor led to one of the door-posts.
Clamp-forceps were immediately applied to the cut vessels and one on each side the aperture in the common carotid from which a small spurt of blood, certainly not half a teaspoonful, came out.
Two letters half rubbed out were there, and round About them gay rococo flowers wound And tossed a spray of roses to the clamp.
They are then securely fastened with a tie plate or clamp which passes over the end of the strut and is bound firmly against the surface of the frame piece by the eye bolts of the stanchion sockets.
Wall, I lost the lamp, I lost the clamp, I lost my patience, I lost my temper, I lost my self-respect, my last suspender button and my standin' in the community.
Quotes with CLAMP (3)
She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off. He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think…
I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from her lips. "You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes too wide; they look alarmed. "I think you should leave," he …
Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness. I was just one more of those women who clamp their mouths shut and wave the flag as their nation rolls off to conquer another in war. Guilty or innocent, they have everything to lose. They are what there is to lose. A wife is the earth itse…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 171 times in crossword archives (1960–2025).