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Definition of: cripple
(krip′əl) noun
1. A maimed or lamed person or animal; one lacking the natural use of a limb or the body.
2. U.S. Dial. A piece of low, marshy land, partly covered by the tide and partly overgrown with trees and brush.
3. A staging used in cleaning windows.
—v.t. ·pled, ·pling To lame; impair or disable. [OE crypel. Akin to CREEP.]
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