Found 2 items, similar to Crotchet.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: crotchet crotchet n 1: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn: hook] 2: a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note [syn: quarter note] 3: a strange attitude or habit [syn: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness] 4: a small tool or hook-like implement
English → English (gcide) Definition: Crotchet Crotchet \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. [1913 Webster] The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. (Fort.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. (Print.) A bracket. See Bracket. [1913 Webster] 6. (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster] 7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit. [1913 Webster] He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] Crotchet \Crotch"et\, v. i. To play music in measured time. [Obs.] --Donne. [1913 Webster]