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 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

It was made of two springy poles held in place by crotched sticks driven into the ground.

From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman)

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

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