Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
graining-board .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wooden tool used in graining leather.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who, or thing which
cripples - noun A
corrugated board used tograin leather
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Examples
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Gretchen Bleiler, who stuck an insanely tough trick called a crippler 720, but was so stunned by that success that she botched her next hit, clipping the lip of the pipe and tumbling out of the medals.
CNN.com 2010
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Vaccination is the only prevention for the killer and crippler that prefers children as its victims.
Polio 2010
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Where was my damn mind, drinking wine, the powerful crippler of sound judgment?
Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011
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Where was my damn mind, drinking wine, the powerful crippler of sound judgment?
Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is aware of the crisis but says it has no money to educate the public about this crippler.
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Or we could discover that an absence of repair capacity is an evolutionary crippler.
Abusing Science 2008
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Bradford: Or we could discover that an absence of repair capacity is an evolutionary crippler.
Abusing Science 2008
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You see, it is now believed that if polio is not soon eradicated, we will lose our last best chance to rid the world of this cruel killer and crippler that prefers only the young of our planet.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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You see, it is now believed that if polio is not soon eradicated, we will lose our last best chance to rid the world of this cruel killer and crippler that prefers only the young of our planet.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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One on chromosome 4, if mutated, causes Huntington's disease, the neurological crippler whose most famous victim is folk singer Woody Guthrie.
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