crotching

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. (US, Western, historical, transitive, timber industry) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.
3. (transitive) To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear.
   • I remember crotching a bottle of Corona out of a pub on Commercial Drive and nursing it with Cancer as we stumbled towards my car .2008, Patrick Blennerhassett, Monument, page 182
4. (transitive) To hit in the crotch (genital region).
   • Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat.2002, Pat McNeill, The Tables All Were Broken=, page 4
5. (transitive) To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole).
   • […] when she begins to go astern, let go the anchor, brail up the spanker, crotch the boom, haul taut the guys, light-to the cable, as fast as she will take it, until a sufficient scope is out, when stopper.1864, William N. Brady, The Kedge-anchor, Or Young Sailor's Assistant, page 192
6. (transitive, tree work) To hang (a rope) over a crotch in a tree so that the ends hang down from opposite sides.
   • The safety sling should be tied immediately after the climber has crotched his rope as high and as close to the trunk as possible.1935, United States. National Park Service. Branch of forestry, Tree Preservation Bulletin - Issues 1-9, page 9

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