† limpardn.
Obsolete.
A contemptuous name for one who limps, a cripple.
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cripplec950
lameOE
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halterc1440
maima1500
maim?a1500
Vulcan1600
lamester1639
limpard1653
vulcanist1656
lameter1823
gammy1893
hoppy1904
crip1918
gimp1925
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxxix. 178 What could that gowtie Limpard have done with so fine a dog?
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n.1653- to put a person on a diet
- to put a person on a slow boat to china
- to put a person on guard
- to put a person on her mettle
- to put a person on his guard
- to put a person on his mettle
- to put a person on his or her honour
- to put a person on his trial
- to put a person on ice
- to put a person on the back foot
- to put a person on the spot
- to put a person out of commons
- to put a person out of her misery
- to put a person out of her pain
- to put a person out of his etc way
- to put a person out of his her way
- to put a person out of his misery
- to put a person out of his pain
- to put a person out of his way
- to put a person out of misery
- to put a person out of pain
- to put a person out of the way
- to put a person though the mincer
- to put a person through a course of sprouts
- to put a person through etc facings