crotched
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
There seemed to be several large kettles, slung with chains from a “lug-pole” supported by strong crotched stakes at each end—a circumstance which struck me as a little odd at a hunting-fire.
From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various
Some of the traps we would drive crotched stakes and lay poles in them and then cover with hemlock boughs to keep the snow off.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
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 C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
In the latter stood two stout crotched stakes, firmly braced—the handiwork of Pedro and Lourenço.
From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
