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Definition of Crotchet

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

2. Noun. A musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note.

3. Noun. A strange attitude or habit.

4. Noun. A small tool or hooklike implement.

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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