Look up: cripple

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   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
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   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.
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   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 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, ...
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   Cripple
   Crip'ple (krĭp'p'l) adjective Lame; halting. [ R.] 'The cripple , tardy-gaited night.' Shak.
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   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 leg or foot; to lame. « He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott. » 2. To deprive of streng ...
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   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.» Pennsylvania Law Reports. (b) A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.
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   cripple
   noun someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
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   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`
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   cripple
   lame verb deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; `The accident has crippled her for life`
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    Cripple
    A `cripple` is a person or animal with a disability, particularly one who is unable to walk due to an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and generally came to be regarded as pejorative when used for people, in the United States, Britain and Canada during the 1960s. In other English-speaking countries, the term is still widely used without pejorative connotations. `Cripple` may also refer to: In `society`: *Crips, a mod...
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    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, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the us...
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    Cripple
    - Short vertical '2 by 4's or 6's' frame lumber installed above a window or door.
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    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
    
    
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    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.
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