| crutch |  | |
| 1. n. 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. n. 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. n. A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk. | |
| 4. n. A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider. | |
| 5. n. (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber. | |
| 6. n. (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. | |
| 7. n. (heraldry) A type of cross formed from two C-shapes joined back to back. | |
| 8. v. To support on crutches; to prop up. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To move on crutches. | |
| 10. v. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag. | |
| 11. v. To stir with a crutch (in soap making) | |
