Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of crimping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or practice of
crimping , or entrapping soldiers or sailors into service. - noun
Money paid to acrimp forshipping orenlisting men.
Etymologies
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crimp + -age?
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Examples
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Men seduced by means of crimpage bounty were said to be "silver cooped," and the art of silver cooping was not only practised at home, it was world-wide.
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At Chatham, crimpage bounty varied from fifteen to twenty guineas per head; and at Cork, a favourite recruiting ground for both merchantmen and privateers, the same sum could be had any day, with high wages to boot.
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The argument that without this system of bondage and ` ` crimpage '' it would be impossible to secure crews is fully answered by the experience of
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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