Cripples

noun

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

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

"He returned from war a cripple."

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

3.nounScrapple.

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

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