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Synonyms for crotch
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kroch |
| Phonetic Transcription : krɒtʃ |
Définition of crotch
Origin :- 1530s, original meaning "pitchfork," from Old North French croche "shepherd's crook," variant of croc "hook" (see crochet); meaning "region where the body forks" is 1590s.
- noun angle
- noun loins
- Pressure should be applied about three inches below the crotch.
- Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
- There in the crotch, close to the trunk, she sat and watched.
- Extract from : « Mother West Wind's Children » by Thornton W. Burgess
- When he finished, he was pretty well armored as far as his crotch.
- Extract from : « Cat and Mouse » by Ralph Williams
- The crotch of the elm-tree which it occupied was about twelve feet from the ground.
- Extract from : « The Watchers of the Trails » by Charles G. D. Roberts
- At dawn Crotch Island had been an emerald, and at sunset an amethyst.
- Extract from : « Caleb West, Master Diver » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Sir: I address you from the second crotch in the willow tree by the pool in the pasture.
- Extract from : « Daddy Long-Legs » by Jean Webster
- You cannot by any possible means do so with lashings, unless you can horn it in a crotch.
- Extract from : « On Yachts and Yacht Handling » by Thomas Fleming Day
- The crotch was made of two stout pieces of wood ten feet long.
- Extract from : « Fighting the Sea » by Edward A. Rand
- The sprit is connected with the yard by what sailors call a crotch.
- Extract from : « Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do » by Anonymous
- Where else but sticking in the trunk of that tree, just where the first crotch lies.
- Extract from : « The Saddle Boys at Circle Ranch » by James Carson
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