Meaning of hirple | Babel Free

Definitions

To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling.

Northern, Scotland, UK, intransitive

Examples

“Get you on that bicycle and hurry on, and I'll hirple after you the best I can.”

“A woman hirpled along the corridor towards them with the aid of a walking frame.”

“Around lunchtime he hirpled down the corridor to the Gents.”

“He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it.”

CEFR level