A variant spelling or diminutive form of crampet, referring to a small spiked climbing device.
From crampe with the French feminine diminutive suffix -ette, similar to crampet but with a distinctly feminine or smaller form designation common in French-influenced technical terminology.
The multiple forms—crampet, crampette, crampon—show how English borrowed climbing vocabulary from French, and different regional mountaineers preferred different names for essentially the same life-saving equipment.
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