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Finish a pastry crust
Answer for the clue "Finish a pastry crust ", 5 letters:
crimp
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Word definitions for crimp in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crimp(ing) may refer to: Crimp (climbing) , a small hold with little surface area Crimp (gambling) , a bent corner of a card to facilitate cheating Crimp (joining) , a deformity in metal used to make a join Crimp (recruitment) or shanghaiing, to shanghai ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crimp \Crimp\, a. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.] Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. --J. Philips. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.] The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves. --Arbuthnot. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 (context obsolete English) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. 2 (context obsolete English) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. n. 1 A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, ...
Usage examples of crimp.
Hell no, it wasnt worth it, not when you might crimp your own concatenation, what was it to you if some damned son of a bitching stupid fool of an antediluvian got himself beheaded by a progressive world by going around in a dream world and trying to live up to a romantic, backward ideal of individual integrity?
After the stone beams were crimped together with metal ties, the entire structure was buried in a solid wall of stone masonry, leaving a series of openings, each a braccio square, between the small traverse beams and under the long circumferential beams.
He stared at his owner, a swarthy man with crimped and oiled hair, cicatrices on his face.
The poor fellow was crimped at the corner by some wakeful sentry and tied up to fight the Grand Duke.
I had seen men crimped in the open piazza, out of wine-shops, from the steps of churches.
Beneath her glowing heels men slouched, passing bags crimped back for bottlenecks.
The drum stood up well under the strain, the grownups around me not quite so well, they were always wanting to interrupt my drum, to cross it up, to crimp my drumsticks -- but nature looked out for me.
Then his hands were pulling her cheeks open, easing them wider as a thumb slid through her crease, loitering to stroke over the crimp of her ass as he slowly pulled his shaft a few inches.
He thudded back to the ground, the three remaining restraints twisting his limbs awkwardly, crimping his burning back.
The writing was as legible as if it had been typeset, each letter shod and gloved with serifs, the parentheses neatly crimped, the wavy hyphens like stylized bolts of lightning.
Lord Pastern, crimping the end of a cartridge from which he had extracted the bullet.
Willin, Rosser Cline, Rip Wellborn, Henry Ford Crimp, and Horace Wells.
Barnaby True was too full of his own thoughts to talk--and serious enough thoughts they were by this time, with crimps to trepan a man at every turn, and press gangs to carry a man off so that he might never be heard of again.
Lipitero standing unrobed, the wind playing through her crimped silver-gray fur, her heavily metaled harness glowing richly gold in the sunlight filtering through the sails and shrouds.
The sheet is headed by a beautifully embossed device of some holly in red and green, wishing the recipient of the letter a merry Xmas and a happy new year, while the border is crimped and edged with blue.