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
We then cut crotched stakes and drove them in the ground on each side of the ranks, and laid poles in, then placed cross poles on and covered with hemlock boughs.
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
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
Halloo! what's Sloan about there with his crotched pole.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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
