Obs. exc. Sc. [f. CLAMPER v.1] A botched-up argument or charge.

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1647.  Jer. Taylor, Dissuas. Popery, II. i. § 1. What have the Churches done since? To what necessary truths are they, after all their clampers, advanc’d.

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a. 1664.  Jas. Spottiswood, Mem. (1811), 61 (Jam.). His adversaryes were restless, and so found out a newe clamper.

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1708.  M. Bruce, Lect. & Serm., 27 (Jam.). They bring to Christ’s grave … a number of old clampers, pat and clouted arguments.

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1825–79.  in Jamieson.

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