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

But he had no crotched stick, without which he would have been a cypher, and then, as he had never attempted the game, he knew he possessed no skill.

From Camp-fire and Wigwam by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

The company were soon arranged around the rude tables, which were rough boards, laid across poles that were supported by crotched stakes driven into the ground.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

The crotched limbs can be about three inches long and the poles cut to four feet high.

From Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

The boys pitched the tent by means of a ridge-pole above the tent, supported by crotched poles at each end, and lashed the top firmly to the ridge-pole.

From The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Hough, Emerson