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crotched, a.|krɒtʃt| [f. prec. + -ed.] Having a ‘crotch’ or bifurcation; forked. (Now U.S.)
1587Holinshed Descr. Brit. i. xiv. 74/2 A crotched brooke. 1806A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) I. 181 He pins them firmly down with a crotched peg. 1868B. J. Lossing Hudson 12 Two crotched sticks. 1882Cornh. Mag. May 580 A shaggy roof of bark upheld by crotched saplings. |