D defs.my
Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Crotched

/(krŏcht)/ · IPA
01 a. Having a crotch; forked.
  1. 1.
    Having a crotch; forked.
  2. 2.
    Cross; peevish.[Prov. Eng.]
  3. 3.
    Lying within a crotch; -- said of the object balls in the three-ball carom game whenever the centers of both lie within a 4<frac:1_2/-inch square at a corner of the table, in which case but three counts are allowed unless one or both balls be forced out of the crotch.(Billiards)