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grafts the forked tree

grafts the forked tree is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 grafts the forked tree

What is grafts the forked tree the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Grafts the forked tree is the third-person singular simple present indicative of graft the forked tree.

Words near grafts the forked tree in the dictionary

  1. graftonite
  2. Graftonites
  3. Graftons
  4. graftproof
  5. grafts
  6. grafts the forked tree
  7. graftwood
  8. Grage
  9. Grages
  10. Gragg
  11. gragger

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