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crutching

crutching is the present participle and gerund of crutch.

Meaning of crutch

Verb

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

  1. (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
  2. (intransitive) To move on crutches.
  3. (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
  4. (transitive) to stir with a crutch.

See all 11 meanings of crutch

Questions about crutching

What is crutching the present participle and gerund of?
Crutching is the present participle and gerund of crutch.

Words near crutching in the dictionary

  1. crutchers
  2. crutches
  3. crutches for lame ducks
  4. Crutchfield
  5. Crutchfields
  6. crutching
  7. crutchless
  8. Crutchley
  9. Crutchleys
  10. crutchlike
  11. crutchword

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