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

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

He rose, limping a little, for he still was weak and stiff from his wound, though disdaining staff or crotched bough to lean upon.

From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson

He had built the railed, shingled-roofed little nest high up in the tree's crotched heart where Ruth kept some of her extra-special notes and jewelry and a book of poems.

From Moment of Truth by Wells, Basil