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graft the forked tree

graft the forked tree verb: to have sex.

Verb

graft the forked tree (third-person singular simple present grafts the forked tree, present participle grafting the forked tree, simple past and past participle grafted the forked tree)

  1. (euphemistic, obsolete, rare) To have sex.
    • He would hardly have perswaded Calisthenes to refuse his faire daughter Agarista to Hippoclides, because he had seen him graft the forked tree [translating faire l'arbre fourché] in her upon a table.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • ’Fore Venus, Fawn, I have been shaling of peascods; upon four great madonnas have I this afternoon grafted the forked tree.1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, act IV
    Synonyms:
    discuss Uganda, haul one's ashes, someone's etchings

Synonyms of graft the forked tree

Forms of graft the forked tree

third-person singular presentgrafts the forked tree
present participlegrafting the forked tree
past participlegrafted the forked tree
pastgrafted the forked tree

Questions about graft the forked tree

What does graft the forked tree mean?
Graft the forked tree means to have sex.
What part of speech is graft the forked tree?
Graft the forked tree is a verb.
What is the past tense of graft the forked tree?
The past tense of graft the forked tree is grafted the forked tree.

Words near graft the forked tree in the dictionary

  1. grafship
  2. grafships
  3. graft
  4. graft polymer
  5. graft polymers
  6. graft the forked tree
  7. graft-versus-host
  8. graft-versus-host disease
  9. graft-versus-host diseases
  10. graftability
  11. graftable

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