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cripple (n.)

In place-names in Middle English, cripple meant "a low opening, a burrow, a den" (such as one must bend or creep to enter), a sense perhaps preserved in the U.S. use of cripple for "a dense thicket or swampy low-land" (1670's).

spinney (n.)

"Copse, coppice, or thicket" (1590's), from Old French espinoi "briar-patch, place full of thorns and brambles" (13th century), Modern French épinaie, from espine or from Latin spinetum"thorn hedge, thicket".