Crotched /(krŏcht)/

Crotched

a.
  1. Having a crotch; forked.
  2. Cross; peevish. [Prov. Eng.]
  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)