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

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

Two crotched stakes were driven firmly in the ground.

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

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

The ends of the poles may rest in notches in two logs, to hold them apart, or in crotched stakes driven into the ground, and stayed apart by sticks lashed to them.

From Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 by Various