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Webster 1828 Edition

Crotch

CROTCH

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Noun.
[See Crook and Crutch.]
1.
A fork or forking; the parting of two legs or branches; as the crotch of a tree.
2.
In ships, a crooked timber placed on the keel, in the fore and aft parts of a ship.
3.
A piece of wood or iron, opening on the top and extending two horns or arms, like a half moon, used for supporting a boom, a spare topmast, yards, &c.

Definition 2024

crotch

crotch

English

A coati sitting in a crotch of a tree.

Noun

crotch ‎(plural crotches)

  1. The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.
    There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
  2. The (ventral) area of the human body where the legs fork from the trunk
    Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.
  3. (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.
    He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.
  4. (billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.

Derived terms

  • crotch area
  • crotch seam
  • split crotch

Translations

area of a person’s body

Verb

crotch ‎(third-person singular simple present crotches, present participle crotching, simple past and past participle crotched)

  1. (transitive) To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.
    to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots
  2. (transitive, logging, historical, US, western US) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.

Etymology

From Middle English crotche, croche (also in unassilibated form croke, "a shepherd's crook"), from Old French croche ‎(“shepherd's crook”); merged with Middle English cruche, crucche ‎(“a crutch”). More at crook, crutch.

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