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- Crotchet - n. - A forked support; a crotch.
- Crotchet - n. - 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.
- Crotchet - n. - An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- Crotchet - n. - 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.
- Crotchet - n. - A bracket. See Bracket.
- Crotchet - n. - An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
- Crotchet - n. - A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
- Crotchet - v. i. - To play music in measured time.
- Crotcheted - a. - Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation.
- Crotchetiness - n. - The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.
- Crotchety - a. - Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.