a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Having a ‘crotch’ or bifurcation; forked. (Now U.S.)

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1587.  Holinshed, Descr. Brit., I. xiv. 74/2. A crotched brooke.

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1806.  A. Young, Agric. Essex (1813), I. 181. He pins them firmly down with a crotched peg.

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1868.  B. J. Lossing, Hudson, 12. The guides … placed two crotched sticks perpendicularly in the ground.

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1882.  Cornh. Mag., May, 580. A shaggy roof of bark upheld by crotched saplings.

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