Cripple
Cripple (krip"p'l) , noun
[Old English cripel, crepel, crupel, Anglo-Saxon crypel (akin to Dutch kreuple, German kruppel, Danish krobling, Icelandic kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, from Anglo-Saxon creópan 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.
Cripple (krip"p'l) , noun
(a)
Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog. [Local. United States]
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.
Cripple (krip"p'l) , adjective
Lame; halting. [Rare]
The cripple, tardy-gaited night.
Cripple (-p'ld) , transitive verb
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.
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.
An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic.