cramp ring
noun1
Historical A ring worn to supposedly prevent cramp, epilepsy and associated diseases, especially one specifically blessed by an English monarch before the Reformation.
- The blessing of cramp-rings was abandoned immediately and without comment upon the accession of Elizabeth I.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 193:
- "Now you may have the traditional cramp-rings," Anne said, in that same high-pitched, haughty voice.2011, Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, page 357: