A Quick and Simple Dictionary

crimp

1. Adjective.  (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. Adjective.  (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
3. Noun.  A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
4. Noun.  (obsolete) A coal broker. [Provincial England].
5. Noun.  (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
6. Noun.  (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
7. Noun.  (usually, in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
8. Noun.  (obsolete) A game of cards.
9. Verb.  To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
10. Verb.  To style hair into a crimp.
11. Verb.  To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwich.
12. Noun.  An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. [Since the passing of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this Act, i.e. to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.].
13. Verb.  To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.