graft the forked tree

English

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)

(obsolete, rare) To have sex.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  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.
- 1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, act IV:
  ’Fore Venus, Fawn, I have been shaling of peascods; upon four great madonnas have I this afternoon grafted the forked tree.

Synonyms

discuss Uganda, haul one's ashes, see someone's etchings; see also Thesaurus:copulate

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