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A wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground
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crutch
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking anything that serves as an expedient; "he uses drugs as a psychological crutch"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB use ▪ Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch . ▪ He can be compulsive, full of tics that also are used as crutches . ▪ Without another word she turned and made her ...
Usage examples of crutch.
Jock Binning came upon his crutches from the bench by the stream where he made a fishing-net.
And there was here Jock Binning, who, for all his lameness and his crutches, could go where he wished.
Jock Binning, crutched and with an elfish face and figure and voice, had pulled down upon himself the office of revelator.
You will probably start on crutches, but if you put your full effort into it, you will progress to where you will be able to walk using canes with the braces.
Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through.
This runs from the barrel at the stern, down the centre of the boat, to the crutch on the starboard bow where it is spliced to the two harpoons in front of where Hammerhead Jack is seated.
Beyond them by some fifty feet were the archers, protected by a German knight named Hano von Linka and the limping Myles Brabazon, easing his wounded leg with a boar spear for a crutch.
On Friday the 8th of July, Elizarov, nicknamed Crutch, and Lipa were returning from the village of Kazanskoe, where they had been to a service on the occasion of a church holiday in the honour of the Holy Mother of Kazan.
April was half-gone when Brother Olivier brought stout olivewood crutches and made Michel rise from his bed.
Lalan flanked Salin as they started out, though she was watchful only, not giving any physical aid to the wisewoman whose staff did not seem this morning to be so much of a crutch as a badge of office.
Some time around midnight the twelve members of his escort, who had last been seen lying, most of them unconscious, on the floor of the Fengerzhuang eating-house, came limping into the inn, some of them with a leg or an arm in splints and one or two of them on crutches.
Life, thought Annis, nipping down the narrow passage ahead of Jake so that he had room to use his crutches, was very strange.
Until the previous Friday, Captain Bart Coombs had been limping around on a crutch, the result of a parachute mishap during a Delta training operation at Camp Dawson in West Virginia.
Quickly, lest she lose her nerve, she pulled her crutches from the Blazer and slid her forearms into place.
He left his crutch behind and with autoshot in hand dove out through the passenger door while the hovercar was still moving.