What is (a) A knee, or piece of knee timber. (b) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch called?
crutch — (Naut.) (a) A knee, or piece of knee timber. (b) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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