clamp

1. A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
2. An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
3. A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
4. A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
5. A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
6. An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.

Plural clamps