Crotchet

·noun A forked support; a crotch.

II. Crotchet ·vi To play music in measured time.

III. Crotchet ·noun A bracket. ·see Bracket.

IV. Crotchet ·noun A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.

V. Crotchet ·noun An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.

VI. Crotchet ·noun An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

VII. Crotchet ·noun 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.

VIII. Crotchet ·noun 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.