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noun

Cripple n. One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. "I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine."

Cripple n. (Local. U. S.)

(a)

Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog. "The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go."

(b)

A rocky shallow in a stream; a lumberman's term.

verb

Cripple v. t. (past & past part. crippled; pres. part. crippling)

To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. "He had crippled the joints of the noble child."

To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. "More serious embarrassments... were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay." "An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic."

adjective

Cripple adj. Lame; halting. (R.) "The cripple, tardy-gaited night."

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Etymology of 'Cripple'

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"Cripple" Quotes from Famous Books

... that meant. I'd seen him cripple animals before; but that was when I first came. Since then I'd had another year to grow and to get hard and tough. I was going on eighteen and as big as I am now almost; and I wasn't afraid of him then or ...

— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge

... years, I don't suppose that I should care so much about it. But to be the first that ever it happened to in all the world! Why should papa be the first? You ought to begin with some weak, crotchety, poor old cripple, who would be a great deal better out of the way. But papa is in excellent health, and has all his wits about him a great deal better than Mr Grundle. He manages everything at Little Christchurch, and ...

— The Fixed Period • Anthony Trollope

... in walking through these same yards forty years afterwards, that he had scarcely made his first appearance there, before some dispute arising, his opponent remarked that "there was no use to hargle-bargle with a cripple;" upon which he replied, that if he might fight mounted, he would try his hand with any one of his inches. "An elder boy," said he, "who had perhaps been chuckling over our friend Roderick {p.084} Random when his mother supposed him to be in full cry after Pyrrhus or Porus, suggested ...

— Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) • John Gibson Lockhart

... reason, which is, that they have the distribution of the loaves and fishes. I believe it is very certain that Mr. Pitt will never come into this, or any other administration: he is absolutely a cripple all the year, and in violent pain at least half of it. Such physical ills are great checks to two of the strongest passions to which human nature is liable, love and ambition. Though I cannot persuade myself ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... owner is summoned before the magistrates, and unless he can plead a good excuse he is punished. Also if they find any one going about the streets at unlawful hours they arrest him, and in the morning they bring him before the magistrates. Likewise if in the daytime they find any poor cripple unable to work for his livelihood, they take him to one of the hospitals, of which there are many, founded by the ancient kings, and endowed with great revenues.[NOTE 6] Or if he be capable of work they oblige him to take up some trade. If they see that ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

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