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

Accordingly, after eating a hearty breakfast, he cut crotched sticks and drove them into the ground on either side of the fire and placed green poles across, over the fire.

From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by Goss, John

The crotched sticks were always there just as they had left them where they hung the kettle over the stone oven.

From Five Little Peppers at School by Heyer, Hermann

Adrian remembered that his mate had spoken of it at the time, when by some carelessness, they had not secured the crotched sapling on which they hung their birch kettle.

From A Daughter of the Forest by Raymond, Evelyn

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