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Definition of Cripples
1. cripple [v] - See also: cripple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cripples
Literary usage of Cripples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"Current notes on the organization of after-care for war cripples in Germany. ...
American Journal of Journal of Care for cripples, New York, 1915, ii, ..."
2. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1898)
"THE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION OF cripples. BY compensatory education for deformed
children is meant any special training which will make amends for their ..."
3. The Schools for the People: Containing the History, Development and Present by George Christopher Trout Bartley (1871)
"Origin of Schools for cripples.—The Schools which arc specially set apart ...
Besides these in London, no regular cripples' Schools exist in this country. ..."
4. Pensions and the Principles of Their Evaluation by Llewellyn Jones Llewellyn, Richard Llewellyn Jones Llewellyn, Arthur Bassett Jones (1919)
"62 per cent, of the patients at the Bordeaux centre were agricultural labourers,
and of all cripples the worker on the land most readily resumes his former ..."
5. Publications of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men by Institute for the Crippled and Disabled (1918)
"Industrial training for war cripples. Illustrations of educational work in France
... Measures for the care of war cripples in Germany; plans for economic ..."