Trees that tend to split: Certain species of trees, like the linden and elm, often tend to split, generally in the crotch of several limbs and sometimes in a fissure along the trunk of the tree.
Think of a hundred dead wolves, and all killed with this great little gun while I sat perched up in the crotch of a nice tree!
Wait till I stick my torch in thiscrotch of the tree.
Still another modification of the Kniffin method is one in which a crotch or Y is made in the trunk midway between the ground and the lower wire.
It will be found that the shoots at the ends of the arms usually start first and strongest, and if not clipped back, will not allow the buds back toward the crotch to start well, but if clipped, all other desirable buds then push.
Attacks directed at the crotch are prohibited in fencing.
If the thigh is too nearly horizontal, the trooper is doubled, up and his power of action diminished; if the thigh is too nearly vertical, the trooper is on the crotch and lacks ease.
They told him he must not go near the trees, for if he did he would go so fast that he could not stop, but would get caught in the crotch of a tree.
He knew it at once as the sound of the loose-hung, hollow quills in a porcupine's active tail; and looking up angrily, he saw the porcupine curl himself downward from a crotch and begin descending the trunk to meet him.
The next moment his noiseless wings overhung a red squirrel, where it lay flattened to the bark in the crotch of the hemlock.
But not vague was the fear which shook the soul of the red squirrel where he crouched, still for once in his restless life, in the crotch of a thick spruce-top.
At the same time his keen eyes, much more cunning in discernment than Jabe's, had caught sight of the porcupine, crouched close in the high crotch of the hemlock.
Finding himself savagely pursued by the mother fox, he ran up the nearest tree, a spreading hemlock, and crouched in the crotch of a limb with his victim under one paw.
How do you know it is the rock with the crotchin it?
And which way is the crotch in the rock from the marsh here?
But in a minute he came back and said: "Freckles, you know that iron sling-shot crotchof mine?
Well, Freckles, you can have that darned old iron slingshot crotch free for nothing!
Then Tharn seized the other before he could twist free--caught him by thrusting an arm between the crotchof those gnarled legs while the other hand held to a hairy forearm.
As for himself, he curled in a crotch of the same tree, a few feet beneath her, and, after waiting until she had ceased turning uneasily on her primitive couch, dropped off to sleep.
A few moments later Tharn was sleeping soundly in a crotch of a high tree, his slumber undisturbed by the long familiar noises of a jungle night.
The upright to which it was nailed was the shell-riddled trunk of a plane tree with one sprig of dried mistletoe clinging in a crotch where limbs had been, like a tuft of dead beard on a mummy's chin.
It is all hollow within--a shell of light tough steel with a ladder inside, and behind that twisted crotch where the limbs are broken off the observer is stationed at this moment watching us through a manufactured knothole.
III-12] Hartsell's or Hartzell's ranch was located in the crotch of the forks Pike passed, and the town or railroad station by this name is now 2 m.
It runs into the very crotch between these two, and has a sort of a delta of its own, as well as a double debouchment.
From her round nest in the crotch of a sycamore a great horned owl plunged out at their approach and glided noiselessly away; and in the stillness the zooning of bees among the rocks came to their ears like distant music.
It was a rough place, that crotch between the Peaks, and Shep Thomas had cut his way through chaparral that stood horse-high before he won the southern slope.
Skeets cut the four trees needed, they were measured and notched at the ends and then lifted into place--each end in a crotch of the low branching trees Bobby had selected for the corner posts of the hut.
The shiner dropped off the hook and rested in a crotch of the branch.
The roof would not be exactly flat, for one crotch was somewhat higher than the others, but the four timbers lay firm, being lashed together with black-birch withes.
Crotch in his infancy displayed abilities as extraordinary as Mozart's.
Crotch is to be believed, Handel was never anything but a plagiarist, who passed his life in seeking ideas out of every corner!
Near one of the house poles a funnel-shaped basket was tied, and in it was set a forked stick, within the crotch of which was a little floor and roof, the whole forming a resting place for the Igorot spirits of Talegteg.
First he stripped the body of cartridge belt and such ornaments as he craved, wedging it into a convenient crotch while his nimble fingers ran over it in search of the loot he could not plainly see in the dark.
Caching all these in a convenient crotch of the tree, he dropped lightly to the ground within the palisade, armed only with his long knife.
That night he slept far inland from his cabin, securely wedged into the crotch of a giant tree, swaying a hundred feet above the ground.
He hoped not, for that would mean a night's sleep curled in the crotch of a tree, and he much preferred the bed of grasses within his own abode.
A violet haze enveloped the purple mountains, and in the crotch of the hills swam a lake of indigo.
Soon from a crotch of them would rise a red hot cannon ball to pour its heat into the parched desert.
The sun was sliding down the heavens to a crotch in the hills before he joined her again.
After another passage at arms the Coon left the second crotch and scrambled down the trunk till it reached the leaning sapling, and there perched, glaring at the hunters below.
At first Yan found neither hole in the trunk nor Coon, but after long search in the upper branches he saw a great ball of fur on a high crotch and in it two glowing eyes that gave him a thrill.
Madam was already at work collecting her building materials, and very soon the fragile walls of her pretty nest were formed in an upright crotch of the raspberries, about a foot below the top.
It looked like a big, coarsely woven basket resting in a crotch up under the leaves, with a nearly close cover supported by a small branch above.
The T-bandage is used to bandage the crotchbetween the thighs, or around the forehead and over the top of the skull.
A third splint should be prepared in the same manner to go inside the leg, reaching from the crotch to the inside of the foot.
Prepare long piece of thin board which will reach from armpit to ankle, and another piece long enough to reach from crotch to knee, and pad each with folded towels or blanket.
Both bullets went true, but in falling the bear became wedged in the crotch of a big limb and Nuck, throwing aside his shoes and stockings, essayed to climb the trunk to push the dead beast off to the ground.
But he reached the first crotch finally and after resting a spell, found the remainder of the climb easy enough.
It was Seavey's duty also to carry the end of the hawser to the foot of the crotch over which it was to be stretched to the sand anchor.
On shore, the hawser had been stretched across the crotch and connected with the sand anchor.
The end beyond the muzzle had the stub of a bough on it, but the end in the crotch was tied there with a strip of hide.
Then he procured another slender but long section of sapling that reached from the end of the short piece in the crotch some distance beyond the muzzle of the rifle.
Then he cut off a number of the boughs high up, and in each crotch fastened a big piece of meat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crotch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: branch; crutch; delta; fan; fork; groin; offshoot; prong; ramification; stem; trident; wishbone
