cripplen.adj.

/ˈkrɪp(ə)l/

Forms: Old English crypel, Middle English crupel /-y-/, Middle English cruppel, crepil, crepul, Middle English cripel, cripil, Middle English–1600s crepel, Middle English crypylle, crebull, Middle English–1500s crepell, crepill, crepyl(le, 1500s crippil, crypple, crepple, creppell, 1500s–1600s creeple, creple, criple, 1600s creaple, 1600s– cripple.

Etymology: Old English crypel (known only in Lindisfarne Gosp.) = Old Frisian kreppel , Middle Dutch crȫpel , crēpel , Dutch kreupel ; Middle Low German krōpel , krēpel , Low German kröpel ; Middle High German krüppel , krüpel , Middle German 11th cent. crupel (from Low German), German kruppel , dialect krippel ; Old Norse kryppill , Norwegian krypel ; all < Germanic *krupilo- , < krup- ablaut stem of kriupan to creep v.; either in the sense of one who can only creep, or perhaps rather in that of one who is, in Scottish phrase, ‘cruppen together’, i.e. contracted in body and limbs.

A. n.

a. One who is disabled (either from birth, or by accident or injury) from the use of his limbs; a lame person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [noun] > person

cripplec950

lameOE

maimed1340

halterc1440

maima1500

maim?a1500

Vulcan1600

lamester1639

limpard1653

vulcanist1656

lameter1823

gammy1893

hoppy1904

crip1918

gimp1925

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke v. 24 Cuoeð ðæm cryple..aris.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 51/157 Tweie crupeles þat in heore limes al fur-crokede were.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 1458 It is ful hard to halten unespied Bifor a crepul, for he kan the craft.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. cci. 182 God hath yeuen therto to crepels hir goyng and to croked hir hondes.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. D4^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Of auncient time it hath often been sayd, That it is euil halting before a cripple.

1611 Bible (King James) Acts xiv. 8 A creeple from his mothers wombe.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. Authors Way sig. A6 These strings..will such Musick make, They'l make a Cripple dance.

?1750 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 2) 101 It has restored one who was quite a Cripple, having no Strength left either in his Leg, Thigh or Loins.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. ii. 30 A poor cripple, unable to walk beyond the limits of her own garden.

b. A cattle disease. Also in plural. dialect and Australian.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle

murrainc1450

gall1577

gargyse1577

sprenges1577

wisp1577

closh1587

milting1587

moltlong1587

hammer1600

mallet1600

scurvy1604

wither1648

speed1704

nostril dropping1708

bladdera1722

heartsick1725

throstling1726

striking1776

feather-cling1799

hollow-horn1805

weed1811

blood striking1815

the slows1822

toad-bit1825

coast-fever1840

horn-distemper1843

rat's tail1847

whethering1847

milk fever1860

milt-sickness1867

pearl tumour1872

actinomycosis1877

pearl disease1877

rat-tail1880

lumpy jaw1891

niatism1895

cripple1897

rumenitis1897

Rhodesian fever1903

reticulitis1905

barbone1907

contagious abortion1910

trichomoniasis1915

shipping fever1932

New Forest disease1954

bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987

BSE1987

mad cow disease1988

East Coast fever2009

1897 Penrith Obs. 7 Dec. in Eng. Dial. Dict. Ass t'coo doctor what ails a coo when it'll eat a body's kytle, er owt else but gerse—that's cripple.

1929 Times 1 July 15/6 Lack of minerals in pastures causes innumerable diseases, such as..‘cripples’..in Australia.

2. technical.

a. = cripple-gap n. at Compounds 2, where apparently cripple = ‘creeping’.

ΚΠ

1648 A. Eyre Dyurnal in C. Jackson et al. Yorks. Diaries (1877) I. 106 He opened a cripple and putt his sheepe on to the Newfield.

b. A temporary staging used in cleaning or painting windows: cf. cradle n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > scaffolding > [noun] > for cleaning or painting windows

window cleaner1836

window jack1843

cripple1887

1887 Evening News 11 May 3/6 The jury..recommended the use of ladders, or of the recognised machine known as a ‘cripple’.

3. U.S. (local.) (a) A dense thicket in swampy or low-lying ground; (b) a lumberman's term for a rocky shallow in a stream.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush

shaw755

thicketa1000

thyvela1000

greavec1050

wood-shawc1275

boscagec1400

greenwood shawc1405

thickc1430

brakec1440

shaw of wood1462

queach1486

bush1523

tuft1555

bushment1587

bocage1644

cripple1675

virgult1736

bluffc1752

thick-set1766

sylvagea1774

thicket-maze1813

bosk1815

woodlet1821

rush1822

puckerbrush1867

1675 in New Jersey Archives (1880) I. 115 The great Swamp or Cripple which backs the said two Necks of land.

1678 New Castle Court Rec. 305 800 acres Called the mussel Cripple.

1679 New Castle Court Rec. 286 A small slipe of ground stretching..along the Kripple towards the fence of the Towne Dyche.

1705 in Corr. Penn. & Logan I. 234 About 300 acres, 100 upland, the rest swamp and cripple that high tides flow over.

1720 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 111 Through the Swamp and Cripple..to Little Hollanders Creek.

1832 J. F. Watson Hist. Tales N.Y. 57 Through that cripple browsed the deer.

1942 Sat. Evening Post 5 Sept. 11/1 When they came to the cripple he sloshed straight through.

4. slang. A sixpence. Cf. bender n. 6.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence

tester1560

half-shilling1561

teston1577

mill sixpence1592

crinklepouch1593

sixpencea1616

testrila1616

piga1640

sice1660

Simon1699

sow's-baby1699

kick1725

cripple1785

grunter1785

tilbury1796

tizzy1804

tanner1811

bender1836

lord of the manor1839

snid1839

sprat1839

fiddler1846

sixpenny bit or piece1897

zac1898

sprasey1905

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Cripple, six pence, that piece being commonly much bent and distorted.

1885 Househ. Words 20 June 155 (Farmer) The sixpence..is called a bandy, a ‘bender’, a cripple.

B. adj.

Disabled from the use of one's limbs; lame. Obsolete or dialect, except in attributive use of A.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [adjective]

limphalta700

lamec725

haltc893

cripplec1230

alamedc1275

crippleda1400

left-handeda1425

limb-take1519

limp-legged1523

limpish1570

lamish1592

limping1599

spavined1647

hip-shotten1648

hamble-shanked1661

hop-legged1714

cripply1775

bockety1842

estropiated1917

c1230 Hali Meid. 33 Beo he cangun oðer crupel.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 22829 Ani man..crepil or croked.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xviii. 8 It is better for y^e to entre in vnto life lame or crepell.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. 0. 20 And chide the creeple-tardy-gated Night, Who..doth limpe So tediously away.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 56/2 That criple Folk walk not upright.

c1860 J. G. Whittier Hill-top viii My poor sick wife, and cripple boy.

Compounds

C1. cripple-lame adj.

ΚΠ

1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile lix Dismembred bodies perish cripple-lame.

C2.

cripple-gap n. see quot. and cf. A. 2a.

ΚΠ

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cripple-gap, a hole left in walls for sheep to pass through. North. Also called a cripple-hole.

cripple-hole n. dialect see quot. and cf. A. 2a.

ΚΠ

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cripple-gap, a hole left in walls for sheep to pass through. North. Also called a cripple-hole.

cripple-stopper n. colloquial a small gun for killing wounded birds in wildfowl shooting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > type of

turnabout1801

twelve1804

stanchion-gun1815

Joe Manton1816

ducking-gun1823

punt gun1824

Purdey1830

shore-gun1841

woodcock gun1858

seven-bore1859

twelve-bore1859

twelve-gauge1859

choke1875

choke-bore1875

cripple-stopper1881

over-and-under1889

ten-gauge1894

ducker1896

tschinke1910

under-and-over1911

over-under1913

side by side1947

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 553 Armed with a big shoulder-gun and a ‘cripple-stopper’.

cripple-stopping n.

ΚΠ

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Aug. 4/2 The Crane gun..being used with ball and slugs for..cripple-stopping.

cripple-timber n. a short timber used in positions where one of the ordinary size would be too long.

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 648/2 Cripple-timber, studding or scantling used in narrow situations, where they are necessarily shorter than their fellows, as the cripple-studding from the rafters to the floor-joists in attics finished with a collar-beam ceiling. A jack-timber.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

cripplev.

/ˈkrɪp(ə)l/

Etymology: < cripple n. Compare German krüppeln, transitive and intransitive in senses 1, 3

1. transitive. To deprive (wholly or partly) of the use of one's limbs; to lame, disable, make a cripple of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)]

wemc900

slaya1000

alithOE

hamblea1050

belimbc1225

dismember1297

lamec1300

maimc1325

shearc1330

unablec1380

emblemishc1384

magglec1425

magc1450

demember1491

disablea1492

manglea1500

menyie?a1513

mayhem1533

mutilatec1570

martyr1592

stump1596

bemaim1605

cripplea1616

martyrize1615

deartuate1623

hamstring1641

becripple1660

limb1674

truncate1727

dislimb1855

a1400 (a1325) [implied in: Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19048 Þar sagh þai lij, A man was criplid in þe parlesi. (at crippled adj.)].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. i. 24 Thou cold Sciatica, Cripple our Senators, that their limbes may halt As lamely as their Manners!

1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi (1793) 119 Falling in his drunken fits, Crippled his Nose.

1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) II. 326 Sailors..crippled by scurvy or Tropic fevers.

2. transferred and figurative. To disable, impair:

a. the action or effectiveness of material objects, mechanical contrivances, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally > impair the action or effectiveness of

maimc1395

appale?1530

embezzle1566

weaken1639

cripple1694

derange1776

enfeeble1860

bosh1870

dent1931

1694 J. Narborough et al. Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 75 The Grass and Trees are much weather-beaten, worn away, and crippled.

1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 22 So, that the Mason..shall twin their Arches thereon without crippling them.

1805 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 153 (note) The lower masts, yards and bowsprit all crippled.

1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xviii. 247 No sickness..crippling the warrior on the very eve of conquest.

b. a person in his resources, means, efforts, etc., or immaterial things, as trade, schemes, strength, operations, etc.

ΚΠ

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. iii. Introd. 174/2 To creeple..all the Learned, Godly, Painful Ministers of the Nation.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 173. ⁋1 The mind..is crippled..by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

a1798 J. Palmer Like Master like Man (1811) I. ii. 56 He was..crippled of present means.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 289 The nobility, crippled by the wars of the Roses.

1880 L. Oliphant Land of Gilead x. 304 The trade..is crippled by the difficulty of transport.

3. intransitive. To move or walk lamely; to hobble. (Now chiefly Scottish)

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > limp

haltc825

cripplec1220

hip1440

limp1570

linch1570

claudicate1623

hop1700

crimple1754

hilch1786

crutch1828

hamble1828

dot1843

peg-leg1969

c1220 Bestiary 130 He crepeð cripelande forth.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 956 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 125 He crepillit he crengit he carfully cryd.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cclxxix, in Poems (1878) III. 206 The King (who creepled till he came before This Shrine) walkes vpright now.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 205 Her discomfited master..was crippling towards him, his clothes much soiled with his fall.

1878 W. C. Smith Hilda (1879) 239 The wounded..cripple through the street.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	cripple
释义	cripplen.adj. /ˈkrɪp(ə)l/ Forms: Old English crypel, Middle English crupel /-y-/, Middle English cruppel, crepil, crepul, Middle English cripel, cripil, Middle English–1600s crepel, Middle English crypylle, crebull, Middle English–1500s crepell, crepill, crepyl(le, 1500s crippil, crypple, crepple, creppell, 1500s–1600s creeple, creple, criple, 1600s creaple, 1600s– cripple. Etymology: Old English crypel (known only in Lindisfarne Gosp.) = Old Frisian kreppel , Middle Dutch crȫpel , crēpel , Dutch kreupel ; Middle Low German krōpel , krēpel , Low German kröpel ; Middle High German krüppel , krüpel , Middle German 11th cent. crupel (from Low German), German kruppel , dialect krippel ; Old Norse kryppill , Norwegian krypel ; all < Germanic krupilo- , < krup-* ablaut stem of kriupan to creep v.; either in the sense of one who can only creep, or perhaps rather in that of one who is, in Scottish phrase, ‘cruppen together’, i.e. contracted in body and limbs. A. n. 1. a. One who is disabled (either from birth, or by accident or injury) from the use of his limbs; a lame person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [noun] > person cripplec950 lameOE maimed1340 halterc1440 maima1500 maim?a1500 Vulcan1600 lamester1639 limpard1653 vulcanist1656 lameter1823 gammy1893 hoppy1904 crip1918 gimp1925 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke v. 24 Cuoeð ðæm cryple..aris. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 51/157 Tweie crupeles þat in heore limes al fur-crokede were. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 1458 It is ful hard to halten unespied Bifor a crepul, for he kan the craft. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. cci. 182 God hath yeuen therto to crepels hir goyng and to croked hir hondes. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. D4^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Of auncient time it hath often been sayd, That it is euil halting before a cripple. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xiv. 8 A creeple from his mothers wombe. View more context for this quotation 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. Authors Way sig. A6 These strings..will such Musick make, They'l make a Cripple dance. View more context for this quotation ?1750 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 2) 101 It has restored one who was quite a Cripple, having no Strength left either in his Leg, Thigh or Loins. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. ii. 30 A poor cripple, unable to walk beyond the limits of her own garden. b. A cattle disease. Also in plural. dialect and Australian. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle murrainc1450 gall1577 gargyse1577 sprenges1577 wisp1577 closh1587 milting1587 moltlong1587 hammer1600 mallet1600 scurvy1604 wither1648 speed1704 nostril dropping1708 bladdera1722 heartsick1725 throstling1726 striking1776 feather-cling1799 hollow-horn1805 weed1811 blood striking1815 the slows1822 toad-bit1825 coast-fever1840 horn-distemper1843 rat's tail1847 whethering1847 milk fever1860 milt-sickness1867 pearl tumour1872 actinomycosis1877 pearl disease1877 rat-tail1880 lumpy jaw1891 niatism1895 cripple1897 rumenitis1897 Rhodesian fever1903 reticulitis1905 barbone1907 contagious abortion1910 trichomoniasis1915 shipping fever1932 New Forest disease1954 bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987 BSE1987 mad cow disease1988 East Coast fever2009 1897 Penrith Obs. 7 Dec. in Eng. Dial. Dict. Ass t'coo doctor what ails a coo when it'll eat a body's kytle, er owt else but gerse—that's cripple. 1929 Times 1 July 15/6 Lack of minerals in pastures causes innumerable diseases, such as..‘cripples’..in Australia. 2. technical. a. = cripple-gap n. at Compounds 2, where apparently cripple = ‘creeping’. ΚΠ 1648 A. Eyre Dyurnal in C. Jackson et al. Yorks. Diaries (1877) I. 106 He opened a cripple and putt his sheepe on to the Newfield. b. A temporary staging used in cleaning or painting windows: cf. cradle n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > scaffolding > [noun] > for cleaning or painting windows window cleaner1836 window jack1843 cripple1887 1887 Evening News 11 May 3/6 The jury..recommended the use of ladders, or of the recognised machine known as a ‘cripple’. 3. U.S. (local.) (a) A dense thicket in swampy or low-lying ground; (b) a lumberman's term for a rocky shallow in a stream. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush shaw755 thicketa1000 thyvela1000 greavec1050 wood-shawc1275 boscagec1400 greenwood shawc1405 thickc1430 brakec1440 shaw of wood1462 queach1486 bush1523 tuft1555 bushment1587 bocage1644 cripple1675 virgult1736 bluffc1752 thick-set1766 sylvagea1774 thicket-maze1813 bosk1815 woodlet1821 rush1822 puckerbrush1867 1675 in New Jersey Archives (1880) I. 115 The great Swamp or Cripple which backs the said two Necks of land. 1678 New Castle Court Rec. 305 800 acres Called the mussel Cripple. 1679 New Castle Court Rec. 286 A small slipe of ground stretching..along the Kripple towards the fence of the Towne Dyche. 1705 in Corr. Penn. & Logan I. 234 About 300 acres, 100 upland, the rest swamp and cripple that high tides flow over. 1720 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 111 Through the Swamp and Cripple..to Little Hollanders Creek. 1832 J. F. Watson Hist. Tales N.Y. 57 Through that cripple browsed the deer. 1942 Sat. Evening Post 5 Sept. 11/1 When they came to the cripple he sloshed straight through. 4. slang. A sixpence. Cf. bender n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence tester1560 half-shilling1561 teston1577 mill sixpence1592 crinklepouch1593 sixpencea1616 testrila1616 piga1640 sice1660 Simon1699 sow's-baby1699 kick1725 cripple1785 grunter1785 tilbury1796 tizzy1804 tanner1811 bender1836 lord of the manor1839 snid1839 sprat1839 fiddler1846 sixpenny bit or piece1897 zac1898 sprasey1905 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Cripple, six pence, that piece being commonly much bent and distorted. 1885 Househ. Words 20 June 155 (Farmer) The sixpence..is called a bandy, a ‘bender’, a cripple. B. adj. Disabled from the use of one's limbs; lame. Obsolete or dialect, except in attributive use of A. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [adjective] limphalta700 lamec725 haltc893 cripplec1230 alamedc1275 crippleda1400 left-handeda1425 limb-take1519 limp-legged1523 limpish1570 lamish1592 limping1599 spavined1647 hip-shotten1648 hamble-shanked1661 hop-legged1714 cripply1775 bockety1842 estropiated1917 c1230 Hali Meid. 33 Beo he cangun oðer crupel. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 22829 Ani man..crepil or croked. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xviii. 8 It is better for y^e to entre in vnto life lame or crepell. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. 0. 20 And chide the creeple-tardy-gated Night, Who..doth limpe So tediously away. View more context for this quotation a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 56/2 That criple Folk walk not upright. c1860 J. G. Whittier Hill-top viii My poor sick wife, and cripple boy. Compounds C1. cripple-lame adj. ΚΠ 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile lix Dismembred bodies perish cripple-lame. C2. cripple-gap n. see quot. and cf. A. 2a. ΚΠ 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cripple-gap, a hole left in walls for sheep to pass through. North. Also called a cripple-hole. cripple-hole n. dialect see quot. and cf. A. 2a. ΚΠ 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cripple-gap, a hole left in walls for sheep to pass through. North. Also called a cripple-hole. cripple-stopper n. colloquial a small gun for killing wounded birds in wildfowl shooting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > type of turnabout1801 twelve1804 stanchion-gun1815 Joe Manton1816 Joe Manton1816 ducking-gun1823 punt gun1824 Purdey1830 shore-gun1841 woodcock gun1858 seven-bore1859 twelve-bore1859 twelve-gauge1859 choke1875 choke-bore1875 cripple-stopper1881 over-and-under1889 ten-gauge1894 ducker1896 tschinke1910 under-and-over1911 over-under1913 side by side1947 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 553 Armed with a big shoulder-gun and a ‘cripple-stopper’. cripple-stopping n. ΚΠ 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Aug. 4/2 The Crane gun..being used with ball and slugs for..cripple-stopping. cripple-timber n. a short timber used in positions where one of the ordinary size would be too long. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 648/2 Cripple-timber, studding or scantling used in narrow situations, where they are necessarily shorter than their fellows, as the cripple-studding from the rafters to the floor-joists in attics finished with a collar-beam ceiling. A jack-timber. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). cripplev. /ˈkrɪp(ə)l/ Etymology: < cripple n. Compare German krüppeln, transitive and intransitive in senses 1, 3 1. transitive. To deprive (wholly or partly) of the use of one's limbs; to lame, disable, make a cripple of. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] wemc900 slaya1000 alithOE hamblea1050 belimbc1225 dismember1297 lamec1300 maimc1325 shearc1330 unablec1380 emblemishc1384 magglec1425 magc1450 demember1491 disablea1492 manglea1500 menyie?a1513 mayhem1533 mutilatec1570 martyr1592 stump1596 bemaim1605 cripplea1616 martyrize1615 deartuate1623 hamstring1641 becripple1660 limb1674 truncate1727 dislimb1855 a1400 (a1325) [implied in: Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19048 Þar sagh þai lij, A man was criplid in þe parlesi. (at crippled adj.)]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. i. 24 Thou cold Sciatica, Cripple our Senators, that their limbes may halt As lamely as their Manners! View more context for this quotation 1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi (1793) 119 Falling in his drunken fits, Crippled his Nose. 1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) II. 326 Sailors..crippled by scurvy or Tropic fevers. 2. transferred and figurative. To disable, impair: a. the action or effectiveness of material objects, mechanical contrivances, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally > impair the action or effectiveness of maimc1395 appale?1530 embezzle1566 weaken1639 cripple1694 derange1776 enfeeble1860 bosh1870 dent1931 1694 J. Narborough et al. Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 75 The Grass and Trees are much weather-beaten, worn away, and crippled. 1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 22 So, that the Mason..shall twin their Arches thereon without crippling them. 1805 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 153 (note) The lower masts, yards and bowsprit all crippled. 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xviii. 247 No sickness..crippling the warrior on the very eve of conquest. b. a person in his resources, means, efforts, etc., or immaterial things, as trade, schemes, strength, operations, etc. ΚΠ 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. iii. Introd. 174/2 To creeple..all the Learned, Godly, Painful Ministers of the Nation. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 173. ⁋1 The mind..is crippled..by perpetual application to the same set of ideas. a1798 J. Palmer Like Master like Man (1811) I. ii. 56 He was..crippled of present means. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 289 The nobility, crippled by the wars of the Roses. 1880 L. Oliphant Land of Gilead x. 304 The trade..is crippled by the difficulty of transport. 3. intransitive. To move or walk lamely; to hobble. (Now chiefly Scottish) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > limp haltc825 cripplec1220 hip1440 limp1570 linch1570 claudicate1623 hop1700 crimple1754 hilch1786 crutch1828 hamble1828 dot1843 peg-leg1969 c1220 Bestiary 130 He crepeð cripelande forth. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 956 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 125 He crepillit he crengit he carfully cryd. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cclxxix, in Poems (1878) III. 206 The King (who creepled till he came before This Shrine) walkes vpright now. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 205 Her discomfited master..was crippling towards him, his clothes much soiled with his fall. 1878 W. C. Smith Hilda (1879) 239 The wounded..cripple through the street. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.adj.c950v.c1220
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