Sometimes Offensive .

a person or animal that is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs; a lame or disabled person or animal.

a person who is disabled or impaired in any way

a mental cripple.

anything that is impaired or flawed.

a wounded animal, esp. one shot by a hunter.

Carpentry . any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a window sill.

Delaware Valley . a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land.

to make a cripple of; lame.

to disable; impair; weaken.

Carpentry . jack 1 ( def. 27 ) .

verb

aid , assist , enable , help , strengthen , support , allow , capacitate , encourage

verb

attenuate , blunt , debilitate , disarm , dislimb , dismember , enfeeble , hamstring * , hurt , immobilize , incapacitate , injure , lame , maim , mangle , mutilate , palsy , paralyze , prostrate , sap , sideline * , stifle , undermine , unstrengthen , weaken , bring to standstill , cramp , damage , destroy , halt , impair , put out of action , ruin , spoil , vitiate , knock out , crumpet , disable , hamstring , handicap , harm , hough , mar , sideline