0 to press cloth, paper, etc. into small folds along its edges, or to press hair into a series of folds using a heated device --
1 to press something into small folds or curves: --
She had her hair crimped.
I agree that the object is to prevent crimping.
The old crimping days are practically over, and therefore the old provisions against the practice are no longer necessary.
The whole policy was to crimp, restrict and to do everything possible to hamper and even to sabotage the public sector of transport.
Single stems were removed from the tank daily after 5 days, dried and crimped to assess the ease of fibre extraction, and therefore the retting progress.
Clearly with four shearings per year there was even less time to form effective adhesions between fibres and so staple crimp frequency was still further reduced.
However, in the biannual shearing treatments there was less time between shearings to form effective adhesions, and so there was less time to form staple crimp.
Crimp is opening up his language to scrutiny by presenting apparently naturalistic dialogue within the context of an increasingly compressed and globalized environment.
Crimp's 'distinct world' is one that is no longer able to be apprehended.
