clamper

One who, or that which, clamps.

If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers.

An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.

1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin Both divisions are provided with clampers, to steady them and their sledges on the irregular ice-surfaces […]

A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.

To crimp.

Scratch-cutters are used on the tenons to give them a rough glue-holding surface, the ends of tenons are then clampered a little so they will readily enter the hub-mortise.

The punch was then removed and the edge of the hole in the pad clampered.

To join in an unsystematic or haphazard fashion.

But this Netherlands is the main bar; I have no pluck in me for such things at present — yet it must be clampered together in some shape, and shall if I keep wagging.

The ship's masts were oak and clampered together, nothing worth.

To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.

Eh! is nae that Ecclesfield's foot clampering wi' his spurs at the door?

A troop of Zurich yeomanry, having been reviewed, were "clampering," it could not be called prancing, on their great heavy steeds, through the town, to the great wonder and admiration of the idlers and their assistants, who were lounging about in considerable numbers.

To complain in an irritating manner.

Sir James Areskine also perceaving he prevailed nothing by clampering with the Bishop of Clogher, he desired to be reconciled to the Bishop, and soon after died at Dublin, where the Bishop of Clogher was requested by his sone and other friends to make his funeral sermon, and did (so) accordingly.

Delivered from the clampering clutch of self, we are built up into a re-collected consciousness of God.