crotchet

[Crotch·et]

A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

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A forked support; a crotch.

Noun
a small tool or hook-like implement

Noun
a strange attitude or habit

Noun
a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note

Noun
a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook


n.
A forked support; a crotch.

n.
A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.

n.
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

n.
The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.

n.
A bracket. See Bracket.

n.
An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.

n.
A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.

v. i.
To play music in measured time.


Crotchet

Crotch"et (kr?ch"?t; 224), n. [F. crochet, prop., a little hook, a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, Crocket, Crosier.] 1. A forked support; a crotch.
The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
2. (Mus.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note. 3. (Fort.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed. 4. (Mil.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle. 5. (Print.) A bracket. See Bracket. 6. (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison. 7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.

Crotchet

Crotch"et, v. i. To play music in measured time. [Obs.] Donne.

A forked support; a crotch.

To play music in measured time.

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