troching

From Old French troche (“cluster, group”). Compare French trochure (“a surantler”), trochée (“branches of a seedling”), trochet (“cluster of flowers or fruits”).

troching (plural trochings)

1. (zoology, obsolete) One of the small branches (tines) of a stag's antler.

• “troching”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• torching