crutch英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 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.
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.
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.
A knee, or piece of knee timber.
A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
An improvised device, usually made from a piece of cardboard, to hold the last end of a joint. slang

动词 v.

To support on crutches; to prop up. transitive

— [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.
To move on crutches. intransitive
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag. transitive

— 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.
to stir with a crutch. transitive

词形变化

crutches plural crutches present,singular,third-person crutching participle,present crutched participle,past crutched past

词汇关系

衍生词

Christ on a crutch could eat the crutch from a low flying duck crutch cross crutchless crutchlike crutch word forearm crutch underarm crutch crutcher

词源

词源 1

From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.

词源 2

From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.