A Scottish term for a bent or crooked piece of metal, or a cramp-like fastening device used in construction.
From Scots crampit, past participle of cramp, influenced by Middle Low German kramp. Scottish engineering terminology preserved older Germanic terms for bent or fastened metal devices.
Scottish castles and stone bridges used thousands of crampits to bind stones together—these iron brackets were so crucial that the skill of making them was a prestigious craft passed through families.
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