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 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
It is formed from natural branches, two straight and two crotched ones, from which all the smaller branches and twigs have been cut away so as to have but little more than protruding knots.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
Then he fixed a crotched stick over his fire and hung the birch kettle upon it.
From A Daughter of the Forest by Evelyn Raymond
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 Emerson Hough
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