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Definition of Crippling
1. Adjective. That cripples or disables or incapacitates. "A crippling injury"
Definition of Crippling
1. n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
Definition of Crippling
1. Verb. (present participle of cripple) ¹
2. Adjective. That cripples ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crippling
1. cripple [v] - See also: cripple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crippling
Literary usage of Crippling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aeronautics in Theory and Experiment by William Lewis Cowley, Hyman Levy (1920)
"Without entering into any elaborate proof of the matter, however, it is clear
that what distinguishes crippling from ordinary cases of flexure is the ..."
2. The Elements of Graphic Statics by Karl von Ott (1905)
"Resistance to crippling.—If the length L of a compression bar AB, Fig. 92, is
from five to ten times the middle sectional dimensions D, then by continuing ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"... any pacific overtures until the original object of the League, " the essential
and permanent crippling of the King of Prussia," had been accomplished. ..."
4. Orthopedic Surgery for Practitioners by Henry Ling Taylor, Charles Ogilvy, Fred Houdlett Albee (1909)
"It will thus be seen that deformities and crippling affections may be studied
from the standpoint of their causation, from that of the tissue affected, ..."
5. The Stresses in Framed Structures: Including the Strength of Materials and by Augustus Jay Du Bois (1896)
"We call this load the crippling load, or limit load. ... We have then for the
crippling or limit load Pl = SJ><? ..."
6. Aeronautics in Theory and Experiment by William Lewis Cowley, Hyman Levy (1920)
"Without entering into any elaborate proof of the matter, however, it is clear
that what distinguishes crippling from ordinary cases of flexure is the ..."
7. The Elements of Graphic Statics by Karl von Ott (1905)
"Resistance to crippling.—If the length L of a compression bar AB, Fig. 92, is
from five to ten times the middle sectional dimensions D, then by continuing ..."
8. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"... any pacific overtures until the original object of the League, " the essential
and permanent crippling of the King of Prussia," had been accomplished. ..."
9. Orthopedic Surgery for Practitioners by Henry Ling Taylor, Charles Ogilvy, Fred Houdlett Albee (1909)
"It will thus be seen that deformities and crippling affections may be studied
from the standpoint of their causation, from that of the tissue affected, ..."
10. The Stresses in Framed Structures: Including the Strength of Materials and by Augustus Jay Du Bois (1896)
"We call this load the crippling load, or limit load. ... We have then for the
crippling or limit load Pl = SJ><? ..."
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