crotched

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No one saw this more clearly than Gorey’s friend Maurice Sendak, who recalled a cover illustration Gorey did for Melville’s novel “Redburn” featuring a prominently crotched male observer staring at three rough-tradish sailors.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2018

Its construction was begun by drawing a circle on the ground, and on the outline setting a number of crotched posts, in which beams were laid.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

Apparently Ty realized the same thing, for he was seen to be extending that same crotched stick that had before proven so useful.

From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Douglas, Alan

Some of the traps we would drive crotched stakes and lay poles in them and then cover with hemlock boughs to keep the snow off.

From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel

In the latter stood two stout crotched stakes, firmly braced—the handiwork of Pedro and Lourenço.

From The Pathless Trail by Friel, Arthur O. (Arthur Olney)