crotch

1. (transitive) To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.Examples: "to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots"transitive

2. (transitive, Western US, timber industry, historical) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.USWesternhistoricaltransitive

3. (transitive) To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear.Examples: "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 ."; "I crotched them. I put them in my underwear."; "Techniques used: the woman rolled four coats and crotched them (placed them under her dress and held them between her thighs), and each of the men wrapped three coats around his midsection"transitive

4. (transitive) To hit in the crotch (genital region).Examples: "Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat."; "Pillman gets crotched on the top rope and barely kicks out of a superplex."; "Calhoun turns around and Leo is facing him and he crotched him."transitive

5. (transitive, sailing) To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole).Examples: "[…] 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."; "I always crotched the boom while reefing, and made an easy job of it, the boat, in the meantime, taking perfect care of herself on any point of sailing, under jib and jigger."; "The big coiled throat and peak halyards were made ready to run, and the mainsheet was put to the winch ready for crotching the boom."transitive

6. (transitive, tree work) To hang (a rope) over a crotch in a tree so that the ends hang down from opposite sides.Examples: "The safety sling should be tied immediately after the climber has crotched his rope as high and as close to the trunk as possible."; "If it is necessary, however, to climb directly onto the limb where the rope is crotched, the limb may be approached as shown in Figure 32."; "The climbing line shall be crotched as soon as practicable after the employee is aloft, and a taut-line hitch tied and checked."transitive