Crutch vs Crutchlike - What's the difference?
crutch | crutchlike |
A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
* Shakespeare
Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
* H. Smith
A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
(nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
(nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
To support on crutches; to prop up.
* Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. — Dryden.
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.'' — 2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, Stock Journal,
As a noun crutch
is a device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.As a verb crutch
is to support on crutches; to prop up.As an adjective crutchlike is
resembling or characteristic of a crutch.crutch
English
(wikipedia crutch)Noun
(crutches)- He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
- I'll lean upon one crutch , and fight with the other.
- Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.
- Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone.
Verb
''Richie Foster a cut above the rest,