crimp

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

Now the Fowler […] Treads the crimp Earth,

Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves

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.

The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.

The natural curliness of wool fibres.

Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

A card game.

Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.

A small hold with little surface area.

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.

Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.

Casino employees and Gaming Control Board agents placed the table under observation. The deck in play was exchanged for a new deck, and the used deck was found to contain many crimped cards.

To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

He crimped the wire in place.

To pinch and hold; to seize.

To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.

To bend or mold leather into shape.