crutched

crutched is the simple past and past participle of crutch.

Adjective

crutched (not comparable)

Supported upon crutches.
- Youth has not yet completely gone with its beauty, grace, and strength; nor has age at all come with its decrepitudes; though the finest undrossed parts of it—its mildness and its wisdom—have gone on before, as decorous chamberlains precede the sedan of some crutched king.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched.
- a crutched friar

crutch (third-person singular simple present crutches, present participle crutching, simple past and past participle crutched)

(transitive) To support on crutches; to prop up.
- [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.1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 13
(intransitive) To move on crutches.
(transitive) 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, “Richie Foster a cut above the rest”, in Stock Journal
(transitive) to stir with a crutch.

What does crutched mean?: Crutched means supported upon crutches.
What is crutched the simple past and past participle of?: Crutched is the simple past and past participle of crutch.
What part of speech is crutched?: Crutched is an adjective.

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