crutch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim Something or someone 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. isim A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
4. isim A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
5. isim A knee, or piece of knee timber.
6. isim A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
7. isim An improvised device, usually made from a piece of cardboard, to hold the last end of a joint.
8. fiil To support on crutches; to prop up.

   “[I'll] haſten Og and Doeg to rehearſe, / Tvvo Fools that Crutch their Feeble Senſe on Verſe; / VVho by my Muſe to all ſucceeding times, / Shall live in ſpight of their ovvn Dogrell Rhimes.”

9. fiil To move on crutches.
10. fiil To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.

    “After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.”

11. fiil to stir with a crutch.