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

If nicer yet, he may order a low hollow chamber of three sides of banked snow, and a superstructure of crotched sticks and cross-poles, with canvas thrown over it.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian

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

Accordingly, after eating a hearty breakfast, he cut crotched sticks and drove them into the ground on either side of the fire and placed green poles across, over the fire.

From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by Goss, John

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