cripple

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple.
2. n. A damaged or defective object or device.
3. v. To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.
4. v. To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of: a strike that crippled the factory.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who is partially or wholly deprived of the use of one or more of his limbs; a lame person: also applied to animals.
2. n. A dense thicket in swampy or low land; a patch of low timber-growth.
3. n. A rocky shallow in a stream: so called by lumbermen.
4. Lame; decrepit.
5. To walk haltingly, like a cripple.
6. To make (one) a cripple; partly disable by injuring a limb or limbs; deprive of the free use of a limb or limbs, especially of a leg or foot; lame.
7. To disable in part; impair the power or efficiency of; weaken by impairment: as, the fleet was crippled in the engagement; to cripple one's resources by bad debts.
8. Synonyms Maim, Disfigure. etc. See mutilate.
9. n. A kind of temporary staging used by window-cleaners.
10. n. In railroading, a freight-car or other car which has been injured or damaged in its running gear or is for any other reason unfit for use. A ear condemned by a car-inspector as a cripple must be cut out of its train and sent to the cripple-track. See drill-yard.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Crippled.
2. n. a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
3. n. a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
4. n. dialect scrapple.
5. v. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
6. v. figuratively to damage seriously; to destroy
7. v. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.
2. n. Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.
3. n. A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.
4. adj. rare Lame; halting.
5. v. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
6. v. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
2. n. someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
3. v. deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg