Meaning

noun someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back

verb deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless

verb deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

originFrom Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0