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单词 cripple
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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.
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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. D4v, 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.
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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’.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ye 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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).
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