crotchet
nounEtymology
From Middle English crochet, from Old French crochet (“small hook”), from croc + -et (diminutive suffix), from Old Norse krókr (“hook”). The musical note was named so because of a small hook on its stem in black notation (in modern notation this hook is on the quaver/eighth note). Doublet of crochet, crocket, and croquet.
Definitions
A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.
A sharp curve or crook
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
- Either Doctor Denman or an old Woman would have waited—but since the horrid death-doing Crotchet has been found out, & its use permitted—Oh! many & many a Life has been flung away.
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A whim or a fancy.
- He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
A forked support
A forked support; a crotch.
- Their little Shed, ſcarce large enough for Two, / Seems, from the Ground increas'd, in Height and Bulk to grow. / A ſtately Temple ſhoots within the Skies, / The Crotchets of their Cot in Columns riſe: [...]
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line…
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.
A square bracket.
to play music in measured time
- The nimblest crotcheting musician
Archaic form of crochet (“knit by looping”).
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for crotchet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA