[See -DOM.] The condition of being a cripple. So Cripplehood, Crippleness.
1860. Reade, Cloister & H. (1861), III. 72–3. What with my crippledom and thy piety,… we’ll bleed the bumpkins.
1883. W. H. Russell, in 19th Cent., Sept., 495. I was emerging rapidly from a state of crippledom to one of comparative activity.
1864. Dasent, Jest & Earnest (1873), I. 168. There might be no one cripple of such commanding cripplehood as to carry all votes with him by a show of legs.
1755. Johnson, Crippleness, lameness; privation of the limbs. Dict.
