verb

• (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
• (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
  "The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles."
• (transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
  "You're cramping my style."
• (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
  "You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill."

adj

• (archaic) cramped; narrow
  "[…] the result was those folio volumes of MSS. now in the British Museum, in which inquirers into the history of that period find so much interesting material in such a confused state and in such a dreadfully cramp handwriting."