armpit
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Nearby was a whole museum of curling--well, a couple of display cases, containing a signed brush, a 19th century crampit, a polishing machine and all 10 issues of the now defunct Japanese magazine Happy Curling.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was peels at 8-to-8 in the tenth head as the skip stepped up to the crampit to deliver his iron.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hack, a hollow cut in the ice for the player’s foot, used in place of a crampit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Apart from the broom and the crampit, the “roarin’ game,” as curlers love to call it, requires no further implement than the stone, a flattened, polished disk, fitted with a handle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
With this object you stand on the piece of tin or "crampit" before referred to, grasp the stone firmly by the handle and hurl it along the ice.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914 by Various
