crutch
noun
a staff or support to assist a lame or infirm person in walking, now usually with a crosspiece at one end to fit under the armpit.
crutchlike
-
a word derived from
crutch.
Example Sentences
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Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull him through.
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