ETYMOLOGY
from Latin claudicare,
from claudus lame
EXAMPLE
“… Toss’d, half the night, as Vulcan a whole morn,
No Lemnian there to catch the wretch forlorn;
Till his last step to claudicate in gait,
Like him halt, hobble, and hallucinate! …”
From: The Vestriad: A Poem
By Hans Busk, 1820
Canto IV. The Descent.
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