Letter C

Cripple

<B>1.</B> A person who is lame or disabled.

<B>2.</B> To maim or disable a person.

The word 'cripple' is a medically outmoded and politically incorrect term.

It comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'creopan' meaning 'to creep.' Someone who was crippled, as from an oxcart rolling over his leg, had to creep along.

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