crotchets
plural of crotchet
Source: Wiktionary
Crotch"et (krch"t; 224), n. Etym: [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. Dryden.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
4. (Mil.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: A bracket. See Bracket.
6. (Med.)
Definition: 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. De Quincey.
Crotch"et, v. i.
Definition: To play music in measured time. [Obs.] Donne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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