crutch

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kainalosauva
kuva tuki

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crutch

keino, kainalosauva, keppi, sauva.

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kainalosauva 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.

Shakespeare
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.

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.
puhekieltä A knee, or piece of knee timber.
puhekieltä A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
puhekieltä To support on crutches; to prop up.
Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. — Dryden.
puhekieltä 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, http://sj.farmonline.com.au/news/state/niche/general/richie-foster-a-cut-above-the-rest/1735635.aspx Richie Foster a cut above the rest,

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high tech, hi-tech, sandwich, brunch, kitsch

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crème fraîche, crêpe, crescendo, croissant, csárdás, cum laude

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