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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

... the jeering crowd he past, One pitying look old Hiram cast; "Go it, ye cripple, while ye can!" Cried out unsentimental Dan; "A Fast-Day dinner for the crows!" Budd Doble's ...

— The One Hoss Shay - With its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet & - The Broomstick Train • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... himself—endeavoured to advance towards the woman, and staggered backward against the side of the cave. A second wound in the leg had wreaked that destruction on his vigour which the first had effected on his beauty. He was a cripple. ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... volume was also depicted the ambitious but blundering efforts of Zeph Dallas, a farmer boy who was determined to break into railroading, and there was told as well the grand success of little Limpy Joe, a railroad cripple, who ran a restaurant in an ...

— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman

... for desire ran hot in every vein, and yet reason shrank with horror. "By Saint Paul! Edith," he cried, "I see no honor nor advancement of any sort in this thing which you have asked me to do. Is it for me to strike one who is no better than a cripple? For my manhood I could not do such a deed, and I pray you, dear lady, that you will set me some ...

— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

... satisfied, if we should-receive a defeat while at anchor, our disgrace would be great, and our enemies could in that case be little injured by us; while by setting sail, the viceroy, in his greediness and pride, might do himself some wrong upon the sands, by which he might cripple his own force, and thereby open a way for our getting out through the rest. Yet this plan seemed only fit for ultimate necessity, considering that much of our goods were now on their way, and others were expected from day ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr

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