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Crotchet

Crotchet Meaning & Definition
Crotchet Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crotchet?

[n] a small tool or hook-like implement
[n] a strange attitude or habit
[n] a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
[n] a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

Synonyms | Synonyms for Crotchet: hook | oddity | quarter note | queerness | quirk | quirkiness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Crotchet: accidental | angle | apex | bee | bend | bifurcation | bight | boutade | brainstorm | breve | cant | capriccio | caprice | chevron | coin | conceit | corner | crank | craze | crazy idea | crook | deflection | demisemiquaver | dogleg | dominant | dominant note | double whole note | eccentricity | eighth note | elbow | ell | enharmonic | enharmonic note | fad | fancy | fantastic notion | fantasy | flat | flimflam | fool notion | fork | freak | freakish inspiration | furcation | half note | harebrained idea | hemidemisemiquaver | hook | humor | inflection | kink | knee | L | maggot | megrim | minim | musical note | natural | nook | note | notion | passing fancy | patent note | point | quarter note | quaver | quirk | quoin | report | responding note | semibreve | semiquaver | shaped note | sharp | sixteenth note | sixty-fourth note | spiccato | staccato | sustained note | swerve | tercet | thirty-second note | tone | toy | triplet | twist | vagary | veer | vertex | whim | whimsy | whim-wham | whole note | zag | zig | zigzag

See Also | curve | curved shape | hook | musical note | note | strangeness | tone | uncus | unfamiliarity

Crotchet In Webster's Dictionary

\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. --Dryden. 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. --De Quincey.
\Crotch"et\, v. i. To play music in measured time. [Obs.] --Donne.

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