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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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"Cripple" Quotes from Famous Books

... herself completely out of the water into the court. At one time a young duckling got into the well, to solace himself in his favourite element, when she immediately seized him by the leg, and took him under water; but the timely interference of Mr Dormer prevented any further mischief than making a cripple of the young duck. At another time a full-grown drake approached the well, when Mrs Fish, seeing a trespasser on her premises, immediately seized the intruder by the bill, and a desperate struggle ensued, which at last ended in the release of Mr Drake from the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various

... he said, "it was somewhat simple; and I have no doubt at all that it all is as you say; and that the poor stuttering cripple with a patch was as sound and had as good sight and power of speech as you and I; but the plan was, it seems, if you will forgive me, not so simple as yourself. It would be passing strange, surely that the man, if a friend of the priest's, could find no Catholic to take his message; but not ...

— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson

... find the silver stirrup. In every case I do not know. It is my wish to fight for France, but as for the stirrup or Jeanne—sais pas." Another shrug. With that he was making oration, his light eyes flashing, his dark face working with feeling, about the bitterness of being a cripple, and unable to go into ...

— Joy in the Morning • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

... you! Oh, Christopher, what could we do? Uncle Tucker was a hopeless cripple, there wasn't a servant strong enough to spade the garden, and there were only Lila and you ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... village street. Was he mad? America was 8,000 versts away! It was far across the ocean, a place that was only a name to him, a place where he knew no one. He wondered in the strange little silence that followed his words if the crippled son of Poborino, the smith, had heard him. The cripple would jeer at him if the night wind had carried the ...

— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

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