"graft the forked tree" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-graft the forked tree.wav Forms: grafts the forked tree [present, singular, third-person], grafting the forked tree [participle, present], grafted the forked tree [participle, past], grafted the forked tree [past]
Head templates: {{en-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)
  1. (obsolete, rare) To have sex. Tags: obsolete, rare Categories (topical): Sex Synonyms: discuss Uganda, haul one's ashes, someone's etchings, copulate
    Sense id: en-graft_the_forked_tree-en-verb-z2n28Vuc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "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.",
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          "word": "haul one's ashes"
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          "word": "someone's etchings"
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      "word": "haul one's ashes"
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