crampon

Borrowed from French crampon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæmpɑn/, /ˈkɹæmpən/

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• Rhymes: -æmpɑn

crampon (plural crampons)

1. An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.

   Synonyms: climbing iron, climber

2. (botany) An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
3. (heraldry) A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.

• overboot, overshoe

crampon (third-person singular simple present crampons, present participle cramponing or (uncommon, exclusively UK) cramponning, simple past and past participle cramponed or (uncommon, exclusively UK) cramponned)

1. To walk or climb using crampons.

• crampon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Diminutive of Old French crampe.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɑ̃.pɔ̃/

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crampon m (plural crampons)

1. cleat, crampon (a protrusion on the bottom of a shoe for better traction)
2. spike
3. clinger, hanger-on

• → English: crampon
• → Romanian: crampon
• → Spanish: crampón
• → Turkish: krampon

• “crampon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from French crampon.

• IPA^(key): /kramˈpon/

crampon n (plural crampoane)

1. (rail transport) square-headed spike used to fasten rails on sleepers / railroad ties
2. cleat; crampon (protrusion on the bottom of a shoe for better traction)
3. (botany) crampon (aerial root a climbing plant uses to affix itself to vertical support)

• “crampon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026