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

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)

Then he fixed a crotched stick over his fire and hung the birch kettle upon it.

From A Daughter of the Forest by Raymond, Evelyn

It was made of two springy poles held in place by crotched sticks driven into the ground.

From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman)

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