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

Small crotched posts about 10 feet high were set 8 or 10 feet apart and 1½ feet within the circle, and on these were laid beams.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

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

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 Cooke, Maud C.

The crotched limbs can be about three inches long and the poles cut to four feet high.

From Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth