crimping
Pronunciation:
/ˈkɹɪmpɪŋ/verb
Definitions
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
Example: Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
Example: 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.
verb
Definitions
To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
noun
Definitions
The act by which something is crimped.