crutch

Meaning of crutch

noun
  1. A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
    He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
  2. Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
    Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.
  3. A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
  4. A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
  5. A knee, or piece of knee timber.
  6. A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
  7. A type of cross formed from two C-shapes joined back to back.
verb
  1. To support on crutches; to prop up.
  2. To move on crutches.
  3. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.
  4. To stir with a crutch (in soap making)

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Hyphenation of crutch

crutch

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • crutch is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with crutch

utch, nautch, Butch, butch, Cutch, cutch, scutch, Dutch, dutch, hutch, spoonhutch, Kutch, kutch, clutch, declutch, glutch, slutch, unclutch, underclutch, besmutch, clockmutch, mutch, smutch, Krutch, begrutch, grutch, rutch, thrutch

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