°(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
°(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
°A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
°(obsolete) A coal broker. [Provincial England].
°To
fasten by bending
metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
°To style hair into a crimp.