crotch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.

   “Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.”

2. isim Either the male or female genitalia.

   “He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.”

3. isim The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.

   “There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.”

4. isim In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
5. isim The open counter (negative space) formed by two downward strokes that meet at an internal acute angle, potentially above a vertex, as in the letters "V" and "Y".
6. fiil To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.

   “to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots”

7. fiil To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.
8. fiil To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear.

   “I remember crotching a bottle of Corona out of a pub on Commercial Drive and nursing it with Cancer as we stumbled towards my car .”

9. fiil To hit in the crotch (genital region).

   “Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat.”

10. fiil To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole).

    “[…] when she begins to go astern, let go the anchor, brail up the spanker, crotch the boom, haul taut the guys, light-to the cable, as fast as she will take it, until a sufficient scope is out, when stopper.”

11. fiil To hang (a rope) over a crotch in a tree so that the ends hang down from opposite sides.

    “The safety sling should be tied immediately after the climber has crotched his rope as high and as close to the trunk as possible.”

12. fiil To remove overgrown wool from around the eyes of.

    “My father crotched the ewes before they gave birth, and then played midwife to entire flocks once they started lambing in late April, often with the help of Rusyn peasants who knew just when to show up every year and who seemed fond of my tall, independent father.”