Meanings
present singular third person grafts the forked tree · participle present grafting the forked tree · participle past grafted the forked tree · past grafted the forked tree
- euphemisticobsoleterareTo have sex.
’Fore Venus, Fawn, I have been shaling of peascods; upon four great madonnas have I this afternoon grafted the forked tree.
1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, act IV1 more example
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.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLCSynonyms: discuss Uganda, haul one's ashes, someone's etchings
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo have sex.
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