Definition of Crotchet

1. Noun. A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook.

Exact synonyms: Hook
Generic synonyms: Curve, Curved Shape
Specialized synonyms: Uncus

2. Noun. A musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note.
Exact synonyms: Quarter Note
Generic synonyms: Musical Note, Note, Tone

3. Noun. A strange attitude or habit.
Exact synonyms: Oddity, Queerness, Quirk, Quirkiness
Generic synonyms: Strangeness, Unfamiliarity
Derivative terms: Crotchety, Queer, Quirky, Quirky

4. Noun. A small tool or hooklike implement.
Generic synonyms: Hook

Definition of Crotchet

1. n. A forked support; a crotch.

2. v. i. To play music in measured time.

Definition of Crotchet

1. Noun. (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time. ¹

2. Noun. A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook). ¹

3. Noun. (archaic) a whim or a fancy ¹

4. Verb. To make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle ¹

5. Verb. (obsolete) To play music in measured time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crotchet

1. a small hook [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crotchet

crotch-droppings
crotch critters
crotch dropping
crotch droppings
crotch dumpling
crotch dumplings
crotch fruit
crotch fruits
crotch hair
crotch rocket
crotchdropping
crotchdroppings
crotched
crotches
crotchet (current term)
crotchet rest
crotchet rests
crotcheted
crotchetier
crotchetiest
crotchetily
crotchetiness
crotchetinesses
crotcheting
crotchets
crotchety
crotchfruit
crotchfruits
crotchless

Literary usage of Crotchet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of midwifery: Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal by William Leishman (1879)
"The crotchet : Precautions necessary in the Use of the crotchet: The Guarded ... Extraction of the Head by the Various Methods of the Forceps, crotchet, ..."

2. The World's Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of by Lionel Strachey (1912)
"Mr. crotchet, senior, as the master of the house, was left to entertain himself with his own meditations, till the Reverend Doctor Folliott tore himself ..."

3. On the theory and practice of midwifery by Fleetwood Churchill, David Francis Condie (1862)
"M. Mesnard described a crotchet which could be used either double or single, and which was the original of the one in present use. ..."

4. The London Medical Gazette (1843)
"Then, in your right hand, take the handle of the common crotchet, ... Then fix the point of the crotchet on the inside of the head behind—I mean on the part ..."

5. Obstetrics: The Science and the Art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1856)
"I have had occasion to feel, in common with many other practitioners, how dangerous an instrument is the sharp crotchet. Tbe font to be spent on it, ..."

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