Crippled vs Lane - What's the difference?
crippled | lane |
Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
(cripple)
A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees
A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles
A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart
A course designated for ships or aircraft
(card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
As an adjective crippled
is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.As a verb crippled
is past tense of cripple.As a noun lane is
a narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.As a proper noun Lane is
{{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived in a lane.crippled
English
Adjective
(head)- 1848' ''"A '''crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"'' — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre ,
Chapter 17.
- 1893' ''The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a '''crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate.'' — Mark Twain, ''
Pudd'nhead Wilson.
