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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crotch" Quotes from Famous Books

... the girls; and the only wringers were the strong wrists and firm grip that could give a vigorous twist to what passed through the hands. Water was drawn from the wells with a bucket fastened to a long slender pole attached to a sweep suspended to a crotch. Butter, as has already been intimated, was made in upright churns, and many an hour have I stood, with mother's apron pinned around me to keep my clothes from getting spattered, pounding at the stubborn cream, when every minute seemed ...

— Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago • Canniff Haight

... a few moments on the crotch of the boom, clinging to the cringles of the luff—the short ropes with which the ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... hurry, for I knew Crop would attend to his case, and I tho't I'd wipe out my rifle afore I loaded it again. I was standin' by the upturned roots of a tall fir tree that had been blown down, and in fallin' had lodged in a crotch of a great birch, maybe twenty feet from the ground, and broke off. I stepped onto the butt of the fallen spruce, and was takin' my time to clean my gun, when I heard a crashin' among the brush on the other side of the ridge, as if some mighty big animal was comin' my way. I walked pretty quick ...

— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... CROTCH, WILLIAM, musical composer of precocious gifts, and writer in music, born in Norwich; became, in 1797, professor of Music in Oxford, and in 1822 Principal of the Royal Academy; his anthems are well ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... our way." Quonab led to the thicket and selecting a place of many tracks he cut a lot of brush and made a hedge across with half a dozen openings. At each of these openings he made a snare of strong cord tied to a long pole, hung on a crotch, and so arranged that a tug at the snare would free the pole which in turn would hoist the snare and the creature in it high ...

— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

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