[f. CRIPPLE v. + -ER1.]
1. One who or that which cripples.
1648. Earl Westmrld., Otia Sacra (1879), 166. His sounder feet with swathes he ties, And seems to goe in pain as far, As art can prove a Crippeler.
1890. The Voice (N.Y.), 21 Aug. A great crippler to the saloon power in … politics.
2. (See quot.)
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., Crippler, a board with a corrugated under-surface … used in boarding or graining leather.
