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What does cripple mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cripple? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (now rare, dated) Crippled.
Noun
  1. (offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
  2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  3. (dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
  4. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
Verb
  1. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
  2. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
  3. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
  4. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.
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