Morton's fork /mörˈtənz förkˈ/ or crutch /kruch/

A casuistic device for trapping everyone alike, so called from the practice of the 15c Archbishop of Canterbury and statesman John Morton, of exacting loans not only from the rich who could patently afford it, but also from the apparently poor, who were presumed to be saving money

crutch /kruch/

1. A staff with a crosspiece at the head to place under the arm of a lame person
2. Any support of similar form
3. A bifurcation, crotch
4. A small figure inserted to show the number to be carried (mathematics)

1. To support
2. To prop
3. To clip wool from the hindquarters of (a sheep) (Aust)

To go on crutches

crutched adjective

Marked by the sign of, or wearing, a Cross

Crutchˈed-friars or Crouchˈed-friars plural noun

An order of mendicant friars so called from the cross which they wore

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