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.
Crip"ple (kr&ibreve;p"p'l), n. [OE.
cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel
(akin to D. kreuple, G. krüppel, Dan.
kröbling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that
can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. creópan to
creep. See Creep.] 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 (kr&ibreve;p"p'l), a.
Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited
night." Shak.
Crip"ple, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb.
n. 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 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.
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.
