crotchets

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plural of crotchet
crotchet
a whim or a fancy

Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets, thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms.

crotchet
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook)
crotchet
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 mark used in music or printing, hook, odd fancy, whim, strange conceit, tooth
crotchet
A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time
crotchet
a small tool or hook-like implement
crotchet
A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit
crotchet
A crotchet is a musical note that has a time value equal to two quavers. a musical note which continues for a quarter of the length of a semibreve American Equivalent: quarter note minim, quaver quaver
crotchet
a strange attitude or habit
crotchet
A forked support; a crotch
crotchet
To play music in measured time
crotchet
A bracket
crotchet
An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus
crotchet
To make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle
crotchet
{i} odd habit; whimsical idea
crotchet
needlework made using such a hooked needle
crotchet
a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
crotchet
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
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed
crotchet
a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
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