CRIPPLES
Noun
cripples
plural of cripple
Anagrams
• clippers
Source: Wiktionary
CRIPPLE
Crip"ple (krp"p'l), n. Etym: [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: 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.
Crip"ple (krp"p'l), a.
Definition: Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.
Crip"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.
Crippling (-plng).]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition