A dense thicket.
1705. [Part] upland, the rest swamp and cripple that high tides flow over.—‘Penn and Logan Correspondence,’ i. 234. (N.E.D.)
1832. Through that cripple browsed the deer; in that rude cluster of rocks and roots were sheltered the deadly rattlesnake.—Watson, ‘Historic Tales of New York,’ p. 57.
