Creeple

Related to Creeple: cripple, Cripple Creek

Cree´ple

(krē´p'l)
n. 1. A creeping creature; a reptile.
There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age.
- Morton (1632).
2. One who is lame; a cripple.
Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is.
- Donne.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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