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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cripple \Crip"ple\, (kr[i^]p"p'l), noun [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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), adjective Lame; halting. [R.] ''The cripple, tardy-gaited night.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cripple \Crip"ple\, verb (used with an object) [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cripple
noun: someone whose legs are disabled
verb
1: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: {stultify}]
2: deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [syn: {lame}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "cripple": abate, amputee, attenuate, blunt, bugger, burden, castrate, cramp, cumber, damage, damp, dampen, de-energize, deaden, debilitate, defective, deformity, devitalize, disable, disarm, disenable, dismember, drain, dull, emasculate, embarrass, encumber, enervate, enfeeble, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fetter, gruel, hamper, hamstring, handicap, handicapped person, hobble, hors de combat, idiot, imbecile, immobilize, impair, impede, inactivate, incapable, incapacitate, involve, kibosh, lame, lay low, lime, lumber, maim, mayhem, mitigate, mutilate, net, paralytic, paraplegic, press down, prostrate, put, quadriplegic, queer, queer the works, rattle, reduce, sabotage, saddle with, sap, shackle, shake, shake up, snarl, soften up, spike, tangle, the crippled, the handicapped, toil, trammel, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken, weigh down, wing, wreck
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