Crossword clues for limping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Limp \Limp\ (l[i^]mp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Limped (l[i^]mt;
215); p. pr. & vb. n. Limping.] [Cf. AS. lemphealt lame,
OHG. limphen to limp, be weak; perh. akin to E. lame, or to
limp, a [root]120.]
To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of limp English)
WordNet
n. disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet [syn: lameness, gimp, gimpiness, gameness, claudication]
Usage examples of "limping".
Daulo and Akim, the latter limping slightly, were being half dragged away from the outer gate by an escort of six armed men.
For a while, Amara ran beside him in silence, hardly limping at allbut after a quarter mile, her motion became uneven, and on her exhales she started letting out whimpers of sound.
The other warrior kept running headlong, fleeing without a backward glance, and Nom Anor soon discovered what the warrior fled from: a limping, snarling, shouting mob, bearing a variety of improvised weapons, from spade rays to malledillos to writhing wild amphistaffs as much a danger to their wielder as to an enemy, which descended upon the hamstrung warrior to beat and chop him to death with savage triumph.
As we went I seen that deputy Jackson drag hisself out of the bresh and go limping down the road holding onto his jaw.
James came limping into the house, calling for Dolley, his face brighter than she had seen it in days.
Rolls Eaglewood, who was on his way out, limping along with his walking stick.
Then Yabu gave a curt order, and charged with a screaming battle cry, limping slightly, sword high, his men rushing with him, Grays not far behind.
Aragh was limping along on three legs, grumpily assuring Danielle he would lie down, and stay lying down, in a moment so that she could set and splint the broken leg.
Beyond them by some fifty feet were the archers, protected by a German knight named Hano von Linka and the limping Myles Brabazon, easing his wounded leg with a boar spear for a crutch.
Two of the three remaining knights from the venture, Hano von Linka and Francois Mansard, were helping a limping Etienne Lefroi to a seat.
Danny just kept limping ahead, in the tracks of horses nice enough to carry their riders.
He knew only Moses and the men in his cabin, but had seen her from afar, limping here and there.
I heard her captain crying over her broken keelson when the muddleheaded fool came limping into harbor a month ago.
And the gnashing ourang, limping on an almost useless leg, came after me, relentlessly.
Not a raggle-taggle wolf ripping the guts out of a hen house and limping off into a packless loser life.