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

Drive a stout crotched stake on each side of the fire and put a stout stick across them.

From How Girls Can Help Their Country by Low, Juliette Gordon

Ethan had made a rest for the rifle of a crotched stick, for the piece was too heavy for him to hold up to his shoulder.

From Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People by Optic, Oliver

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