Crutch

Quick meaning: Crutch is a noun meaning A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.

Meaning

A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.

More Meanings

1. Something or someone that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
2. A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
3. A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
4. (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
5. (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
6. (transitive) To support on crutches; to prop up.
7. (slang) An improvised device, usually made from a piece of cardboard, to hold the last end of a joint.

Example Sentences

I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other.

Rhyme[…]is […] at best a crutch that lifts the weak alone.

He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.

Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.

Word Forms

• crutches
• crutching
• crutched

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rod, walking, stand, support, leg, cane.

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