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Meaning of cripples

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

cripples

noun

Definitions

  1. (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

    Example: He returned from war a cripple.

  2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

  3. Scrapple.

  4. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.