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Pronunciation : Crip"ple (krp"p'l)
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. kr, Dan. kr, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. cre to creep. See Creep.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Crip"ple (krp"p'l)
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : Defn: Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Crip"ple
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-plng).]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913