gimp

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A narrow flat braid or rounded cord of fabric used for trimming.
• noun A limp or a limping gait.
• noun Often Offensive A person who limps.
• intransitive verb To walk with a limp.
• noun Spirit; pep.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make or furnish with gimp.
• To jag; denticulate.
• noun A coarse thread used in some kinds of pillow-lace to form the edges or outlines of the design.
• noun A flat trimming made of silk, worsted, or other cord, usually stiffened by wire and more or less open in design, used for borders for curtains or furniture, trimming for women's gowns, etc.
• Another spelling of jimp.
• noun In angling, a line in which fine wire is woven, or which is bound or wound with wire to increase its strength.
• To weave or bind wire into a fabric or cord to stiffen it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
• transitive verb To notch; to indent; to jag.
• adjective Obs. or Prov. Eng. Smart; spruce; trim; nice.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
• noun Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
• noun The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
• noun dated Gumption; spirit; ambition; vigor; pep.
• verb of yarn, etc. To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating gimped yarn, etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
• verb dated To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.
• adjective dated, Scotland and N England Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.
• noun informal A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
• noun informal A crippled leg.
• noun informal A limp or a limping gait.
• noun slang, derogatory A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar
• noun BDSM A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia.
• verb informal To limp; to hobble.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
• noun disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet