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CRAMPY, adj. Affected with stiffness in the knee-joints. Also in Eng. dial. (E.D.D.).Ork. 1906 J. T. S. Leask in Old-Lore Misc. (1908)I. viii. 320:
He maybe kens a peerie air aboot crampy grises an' kye includan eum [wild] bulls, . . . bit sae far as da wants o' wir isles geong he's a stoopid amiter.
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