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Look up: cripple

  1. Cripple
    Defective vehicle or train. Known in the US as a Bad Order.
    Found on http://www.railway-technical.com/newglos

  2. cripple
    [n] - someone whose legs are disabled 2. [v] - deprive of strength or efficiency 3. [v] - deprive of the use of a limb, esp. a leg
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Cripple
    Cripple: 1. A person who is lame or disabled. 2. To maim or disable a person. The word 'cripple' is a medically outmoded and politically incorrect term. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'creopan' meaning 'to creep.' Someone who was crippled, as from an oxcart rolling over his leg, had to creep along.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  4. Cripple
    Crip'ple (krĭp'p'l) noun [ Middle English cripel , crepel , crupel , Anglo-Saxon crypel (akin to D. kreuple , G. krüppel , Danish kröbling , Icelandic kryppill ), prop., one that can no...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/188

  5. Cripple
    Crip'ple (krĭp'p'l) adjective Lame; halting. [ R.] 'The cripple , tardy-gaited night.' Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/188

  6. Cripple
    Crip'ple transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Crippled (-p'ld); present participle & verbal noun Crippling (-pl?ng).] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/188

  7. 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.» Pennsylvani...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/188

  8. cripple
    noun someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. cripple
    stultify verb deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; `This measure crippled our efforts`; `Their behavior stultified the boss`s hard work`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. cripple
    lame verb deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; `The accident has crippled her for life`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  11. Cripple
    • (v. t.) To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. • (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. • (a.) Lame; halting. • (n.) One who creeps, halts...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. Cripple
    Cripple was old slang for a bent or battered sixpence.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. Cripple
    Cripple was old slang for a bent or battered sixpence.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  14. Cripple
    - Short vertical '2 by 4's or 6's' frame lumber installed above a window or door.
    Found on http://www.homebuildingmanual.com/Glossa

  15. cripple
    A cut in an unseasoned joist, bearer or stud designed to reduce movement in a floor or wall as the structural timber seasons
    Found on http://oak.arch.utas.edu.au/glossary/vie

  16. Cripple
    As in 'to cripple the deck.' Meaning that you have most or all of the cards that somebody would want to have with the current board. If you have pocket kings, and the other two kings flop, you have crippled the deck.
    Found on http://www.conjelco.com/pokglossary.html

  17. CRIPPLE
    A mis-shapen, burnt or otherwise undesirable unit.
    Found on http://www.cookeryindia.com/dictionaries

  18. Cripple
    A `cripple` is a person or animal with a physical disability, particularly one who is unable to walk because of an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and derives from the Proto-Germanic krupilaz. The German and Dutch words Krüppel and kreupel are dat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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