Crotchet

Quick meaning: Crotchet is a noun meaning (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
2. A forked support; a crotch.
3. (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
4. (printing) A square bracket.
5. (military) 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.
6. (obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
7. (archaic) A whim or a fancy.

Example Sentences

The nimblest crotcheting musician

The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.

He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.

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.

Word Forms

• crotchets
• crotcheting
• crotcheted

Synonyms for crotchet

Depending on context, synonyms include oddity, hook, quirk, quirkiness, queerness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include queerness, quirk, quirkiness, oddity, hook, mongers.

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