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CRIPPLE, n. [G.] A lame person; primarily, one who creeps, halts or limps; one who has lost, or never enjoyed the use of his limbs. Acts 14.

The word may signify one who is partially or totally disabled from using his limbs.

See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing.

CRIPPLE, a. Lame.

CRIPPLE, v.t.

1. To lame; to deprive of the use of the limbs, particularly of the legs and feet.

2. To disable; to deprive of the power of exertion. We say, a fleet was crippled in the engagement.
1913 Definition
Cripple (cripple)
n.(kr***ibreve]p"p'l)
Crip"ple
[OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. krüppel, Dan. kröbling, Icel. kryppill
  1. 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.

  2. Lame; halting.
    [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.
  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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)


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