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noun

Crotch n. (pl. crotches)

The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree. more specifically, The space on the human torso between the two legs; also, the corresponding part between the legs of a pair of pants, which is in contact with the crotch of the wearer; as, pants with a tight crotch have become very popular.

(Naut.) A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; called also crane and crutch.

(Billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table. See Crotched, below.

verb

Crotch v. t. (past & past part. crotched; pres. part. crotching)

To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to; as, to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots.

(Logging) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs in hauling. (Western, U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Crotch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crotch" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked, a wistful light came into the eyes of the man. It had been many years since he had found nesting birds and watched the ways of them. His memory brought old pictures back to him. The crotch in the tree, where the robin had plastered her nest, modeling the mud with her feathered breast; the brook-edge willows, where the blackbirds built; the meadow, with its hidden homes of bobolinks; and the woods where the whip-poor-wills called o' nights. His thoughts made a boy of him ...

— Bird Stories • Edith M. Patch

... concerned, it was the same as that used by thousands of other trappers and hunters. He chose a big strong sapling which Albert and he with a great effort bent down. Then he cut off a number of the boughs high up, and in each crotch fastened a big piece of meat. The sapling was then allowed to spring back into place and the meat was beyond ...

— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler

... expert look through the barrel. One of our best men, for example, has done nothing else all his life; his father before him was a barrel-sighter and his son has just entered the works. He does it this way—here, you try," and he handed a barrel to Hamilton. "Rest the barrel in this crotch," he continued, "and look at the window. You see there is a piece of ground glass with a thin black line running across it. Point the barrel so that it is aimed just below that line, and if you get it right, you will see a reflection of that line running lengthways ...

— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... night and day. The very squirrel himself would run up before his face into the tree, and, crouched in a crotch, would sit silently watching the whole process of bombarding the empty hole, with great sobriety and relish. But Noble would allow of no doubts. His conviction that that hole had a squirrel in it continued ...

— Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor - Volume I • Various

... broken. Then they took him out and gave him wings and a bow and arrows, and sent him away. They told him he must not go near the trees, for if he did he would go so fast that he could not stop, but would get caught in the crotch of ...

— Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore • J. Walter Fewkes

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