crotched
Example Sentences
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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
Then build a cover over this space or fire, by first setting two crotched stakes about four feet apart and five or six feet high, back three feet from the log.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
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 Alan Douglas
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 Emerson Hough
Then he fixed a crotched stick over his fire and hung the birch kettle upon it.
From A Daughter of the Forest by Evelyn Raymond
