A thief-catcher. A crimp is a decoy, especially of soldiers and sailors. (See above.)
“Here lie three crimps of death, knocked down by Fate,
Of justice the staunch blood-hounds, too, so keen.”
Peter Pindar: Epitaph on Townsend, Macmanus, and Jealous.
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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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