Cripple (Hastings' Dictionary)

See MEDiaNE. CRISPING PINS (o-o-!p. Is 3", RV 'satchels,' and 2 K ."i^, AV and RV 'bags'; see Bao 3//).— To ' crisp ' is in mod. l/inguage to ' crimp,' that is, curl in short wavy folds. The word is often used in Shaks., Milton, and others, of the curl a breeze makes on the water, as Par. Lust, iv. 237, ' the crisped brooks'; cf. Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 211, ' I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream.' But the earliest ref.

is to the hair; and a 'crisping pin' is an instrument for crimping the hair. Cf. Pocklington (1037), 'Fetch me my Crisping [linnes to curie my lockes.' J. Hastings.