crotchet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crotchet	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for crotchet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crotchet n a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn: hook, crotchet] a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note Synonym(s): quarter note, crotchet a strange attitude or habit Synonym(s): oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet a small tool or hooklike implement
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bracket \Brack"et\, n. [Cf.OF. braguette codpiece, F. brayette, Sp. bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim. fr.L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop, support; of unknown origin. Cf. {Breeches}.] 1. (Arch.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. Note: This is the more general word. See {Brace}, {Cantalever}, {Console}, {Corbel}, {Strut}. 2. (Engin. & Mech.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. 3. (Naut.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. 4. (Mil.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. 5. (Print.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also {crotchet}. 6. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. {Bracket light}, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crotchet \Crotch"et\, v. i. To play music in measured time. [Obs.] --Donne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. --Dryden. 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. 3. (Fort.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed. 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. 5. (Print.) A bracket. See {Bracket}. 6. (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. --Dunglison. 7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit. He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. --De Quincey.