cripplern.
/ˈkrɪplə/, /ˈkrɪpl̩ə/, U.S. /ˈkrɪp(ə)lər/ 1. One who or that which cripples.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person
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crippler1648
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1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 166 His sounder feet with swathes he ties, And seems to goe in pain as far, As art can prove a Crippeler.
1890 Voice (N.Y.) 21 Aug. A great crippler to the saloon power in..politics.
2. (See quot. 1874.)
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Crippler, a board with a corrugated under-surface..used in boarding or graining leather.
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