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

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

Then build a cover over this space or fire, by first setting two crotched stakes about four feet apart and five or six feet high, back three feet from the log.

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

First there was the "August Pippin" tree, a great crotched tree, with a trunk as large round as a barrel.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

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