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grafting the forked tree

grafting the forked tree is the present participle and gerund 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 grafting the forked tree

What is grafting the forked tree the present participle and gerund of?
Grafting the forked tree is the present participle and gerund of graft the forked tree.

Words near grafting the forked tree in the dictionary

  1. grafted the forked tree
  2. grafter
  3. grafters
  4. grafting
  5. grafting scissors
  6. grafting the forked tree
  7. grafting tool
  8. grafting tools
  9. grafting wax
  10. grafting waxes
  11. graftings

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