Definitions for crutch

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Spelling: [kruhch]

IPA: /krʌtʃ/

Crutch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in crutch (cchrtu).

Definitions for crutch

noun

1. a staff or support to assist a lame or infirm person in walking, now usually with a crosspiece at one end to fit under the armpit.
2. any of various devices resembling this in shape or use.
3. anything that serves as a temporary and often inappropriate support, supplement, or substitute; prop:
4. a forked support or part.
5. the crotch of the human body.
6. Also, crotch. Nautical. a forked support for a boom or spar when not in use. a forked support for an oar on the sides or stern of a rowboat. a horizontal knee reinforcing the stern frames of a wooden vessel.
7. a forked device on the left side of a sidesaddle, consisting of two hooks, one of which is open at the bottom and serves to clamp the left knee and the other of which is open at the top and serves to support the right knee.

verb (used with object)

1. to support on crutches; prop; sustain.

Origin of crutch

before 900; Middle English crucche, Old English cryce (oblique crycce); cognate with Norwegian krykkja, Danish krykke, German Krücke, Dutch kruk. See crook¹

Examples for crutch

With these words he took an iron poker and fashioned it into a crutch for himself.

But just as the former is not necessarily a crutch, so the latter was not necessarily a cross.

In fact, Britney Jean is least enjoyable when Spears, on occasion, reverts to the Auto-Tune crutch.

After my crying spell stopped, I gritted my teeth, tucked my crutch under my right arm, and turned to my husband.

Even if it was a crutch, the Biblical language in these older writings did justice to the enormity of the forces at play.

Although I do love, I think that sometimes swearing is a crutch that can be leaned on rather than used for emphasis.

How he tried all kinds of artifices, as he leaned on his crutch, and all in vain!

The "knocker-up" lifted his crutch and with the upper end of it he battered at the dog's brains.

“Sometimes swearing is a crutch that can be leaned on rather than used for emphasis,” he says.

The publican, who carried a stick, was drunk, and the "knocker-up" was staggering on a crutch.