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grafted the forked tree

grafted the forked tree is the simple past and past participle of graft the forked tree.

Meaning of graft the forked tree

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
    Synonyms:
    discuss Uganda, haul one's ashes, someone's etchings

Questions about grafted the forked tree

What is grafted the forked tree the simple past and past participle of?
Grafted the forked tree is the simple past and past participle of graft the forked tree.

Words near grafted the forked tree in the dictionary

  1. graftage
  2. graftdom
  3. graftectomies
  4. graftectomy
  5. grafted
  6. grafted the forked tree
  7. grafter
  8. grafters
  9. grafting
  10. grafting scissors
  11. grafting the forked tree

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