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

Halloo! what's Sloan about there with his crotched pole.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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 Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel

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