A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Cramp, n. [ME. cramp, crampe (Chaucer), OF. crampe.] Cramp as an ailment.c1500 Rowll Cursing 56.
The cruke, the cramp, the colica c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS. 89 a/25.
Bettir is gut in feit nor cramp in handis 15.. Clar. iii. 1516.
The crampe of death did to his heart thring c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4924.
It causis … into the handis cramp chiragra
