Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Ääntäminen

    • IPA: /kɹʌtʃ/

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
  2. Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
  3. A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
  4. A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
  5. (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
  6. (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.

Verbit

  1. (transitive) To support on crutches; to prop up.
  2. (transitive) To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.

Esimerkit

  • 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.
  • Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. — Dryden.
  • 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, Richie Foster a cut above the rest,

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfekticrutched
Imperfekticrutched
Partisiipin preesenscrutching
Monikkocrutches
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenscrutches

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