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Crutched

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crutch  (krch)
n.
1. A staff or support used by the physically injured or disabled as an aid in walking, usually designed to fit under the armpit and often used in pairs.
2. A forked leg rest on a sidesaddle.
3. A device used for assistance or support; a prop: a mnemonic crutch.
4. The crotch of a person or an animal.
5. A forked device or part.
tr.v. crutched, crutch·ing, crutch·es
To support on or as if on crutches; prop up.
[Middle English crucche, from Old English crycc.]
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crutch
an axillary crutch (left) and a forearm crutch (right)


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"On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay," stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table but not touching it, "was brought here.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
, Crutched Friars, and the magnificent proprietress of the Pineries, Fulham, who gave summer dejeuners frequented by Dukes and Earls, and drove about the parish with magnificent yellow liveries and bay horses, such as the royal stables at Kensington themselves could not turn out--I say had she been Mrs.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
and all the time his little eyes burned like coals under the heavy, horny eyelids on the top of his triangular head, as he shoved his bloated barrel-body along between his crutched legs.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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