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What does cramp mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cramp? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
  2. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
  3. A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
  4. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
  2. (transitive) To prohibit movement or expression.
  3. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
  4. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
  5. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
  6. To form on a cramp.
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