To scour the crampring. To be put into fetters; to be imprisoned. The allusion is obvious.
“There’s no muckle hazard oʹ scouring the cramp-ring.”—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xxiii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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