cripple vs pleach

cripple

noun
  • A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window. 

  • a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. 

  • A rocky shallow in a stream. 

  • scrapple. 

verb
  • To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired. 

  • To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless. 

  • To damage seriously; to destroy. 

  • To nerf something which is overpowered. 

  • To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally. 

pleach

noun
  • A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out. 

  • An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc. 

  • A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher. 

verb
  • To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash. 

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