Definitions for crotches

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crotches crotch

Spelling: [kroch]

IPA: /krɒtʃ/

Crotches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 289 anagrams from letters in crotches (ccehorst).

Definitions for crotches

noun

1. a forking or place of forking, as of the human body between the legs.
2. the part of a pair of trousers, panties, or the like, formed by the joining of the two legs.
3. a piece of material serving to form a juncture between the legs of trousers, panties, etc.
4. a forked piece, part, support, etc., as a staff with a forked top.
5. Billiards. an area 4½ inches (11.4 cm) square at each corner of a billiard table. the situation in which both balls to be struck by the cue ball are within this area.
6. Nautical. crutch (def 6).
7. the area of a tree at which a main branch joins the trunk.
8. the wood from such an area; crotchwood.

Origin of crotches

First recorded in 1530-40; variant of crutch

Examples for crotches

Their dead were buried in canoes, which rested in the crotches of forked sticks a few feet above-ground.

A couple of crotches hold up a pole on which the camp kettles are hung, and under which a fire is built.

They are erected with posts and crotches, with but little or no frame-work about them.

Now set two crotches about four feet high and place a pole in these crotches.

They are deposited in chinks of bark, and crotches of limbs, at or near the surface of the ground.

Hand in hand they watched the rising sun pierce through it and flood the crotches of the hills with God's splendid canvases.

He then out three poles of about ten feet in length, with crotches near the ends.

The crotches of the poles were then placed under the fork of the sapling, the butts of the poles outward, thus forming a tripod.

Several of them make direct eye contact with Tompkins while others gesture suggestively toward their crotches.

Then from this pole place three or four poles, one end on the ground, the other resting on the pole that rests in the crotches.