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 cramponning or (US) cramponing, simple past and past participle cramponned or (US) cramponed)

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), 2004–2025