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crotch
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1898 and 1912 quotes.
See: travois(def. 3)
Quotations
1896
Think of boards drawn from the mill by oxen on two crotches, then put into cribs in the river. . . .
1898
"Crotch? Why that was a thing my old man made to haul logs on. It quirled up at the nose like a sled and sprauled out so-fashion. You see one end of the logs laid on the crotch an' tother end drug behind."
1912
A rough tongueless sled, made out of the fork of a tree and called a "crutch," was used for drawing the logs on.