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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cripple \Crip"ple\, [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 --Pennsylvania Law Reports. b A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] ``The cripple, tardy-gaited night.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} (-p'ld); p. pr & vb n. {Crippling} (-pl?ng).] 1. 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. --Sir W. Scott. 2. 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. --Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS crypel (akin to D. kreuple G. kr["u]ppel, Dan. kr["o]bling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr AS cre['o]pan to creep. See {Creep}.] 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. --Dryden. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cripple n : someone whose legs are disabled v 1: deprive of strength or efficiency; "This measure crippled our efforts" 2: deprive of the use of a limb, esp. a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [syn: {lame}]
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