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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

... into the hall as he spoke, and presently Cavendish heard the click of a telephone receiver slipping from its crotch, and Barclay's voice speaking, to some one below, of a steak, vegetables, salad, and coffee. He stepped to the table, devoured two or three of the biscuits ravenously, poured himself a glass ...

— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl

... she snatches that book and she gives it a sling. I thought it was going kersplash into the crick. But it didn't. It hit right into the fork of a limb that hung down over the crick, and it all spread out when it lit, and stuck in that crotch somehow. She couldn't of slung it that way on purpose in a million years. We both stands and looks at it ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... well down toward its base. The jolt nearly shook the boy from his perch in a crotch of the tree. Very slowly at first, then with increasing speed the tree began to fall. It came down with a mighty crash, hurling little Lucien some distance ahead of it. He was bruised and shaken and for a few minutes he lay where ...

— The Children of France • Ruth Royce

... hustler the robin is! No wonder he gets on in the world. He is early, he is handy, he is adaptive, he is tenacious. Before the leaves are out in April the female begins her nest, concealing it as much as she can in a tree-crotch, or placing it under a shed or porch, or even under an overhanging bank upon the ground. One spring a robin built her nest upon the ladder that was hung up beneath the eaves of the wagon-shed. Having occasion to use the ladder, we placed the nest on a box that ...

— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs

... appearance is in his favor. Suddenly he will pounce upon an unsuspecting neighbor, and with one blow of his beak take off the top of its head, dining on its brains. If there is a chance to kill several more, he will, like a butcher, hang his prey on a thorn, or in the crotch of a tree, and return for his favorite morsel when his hunt is over. After devouring the head of a bird he will leave the body, unless game is scarce. It is well they are not plentiful, or else our canary pets would be in danger, for a shrike will dart through an open window and attack ...

— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe

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