graft the forked tree

English

Verb

graft the forked tree

  1. (obsolete, rare) To have sex.
    • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      He would hardly have perswaded Calisthenes to refuse his faire daughter Agarista to Hippoclides, because he had seen him graft the forked tree [transl. 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.
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