Meaning of graft the forked tree | Babel Free

Definitions

To have sex.

euphemistic, obsolete, rare

Examples

“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.”

“’Fore Venus, Fawn, I have been shaling of peascods; upon four great madonnas have I this afternoon grafted the forked tree.”

CEFR level