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adjective

Crutched adj.

Supported upon crutches.

Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched.

Crutched friar (Eccl.), one of a religious order, so called because its members bore the sign of the cross on their staves and habits; called also crossed friar and crouched friar.

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Etymology of 'Crutched'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crutched" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Hart Street, Crutched Friars, a few doors from Mark Lane, is said to have been called Whittington's palace in the old leases, but this is the only evidence in favour of the popular belief. The front was elaborately carved in oak, the work of a much later date than that of Whittington. The decoration ...

— The History of Sir Richard Whittington • T. H.

... tumbling from her lips in a witless jumble. Contrary, to the last, she wouldn't answer: But crept away, like a wounded pheasant, to die Alone. She's gone before me, after all— And she, so hale; while I was crutched and crippled. I haven't looked on her face for eleven-year: But she was bonnie, when I saw her first, That morning at the fair—so fresh ...

— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

... church, fair and graceful, seemed well to complete and rule the institution. Esclairmonde could but sigh with a sort of regret as she left it, and let herself be conducted by Sir Richard Whittington to a refection at his beautiful house in Crutched Friars, built round a square, combining warehouse and manor-house; richly-carved shields, with the arms of the companies of London, supporting the tier of first-floor windows, and another row of brackets above supporting another overhanging story. A fountain was in the centre of ...

— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge