CROTCHET

noun a forked support; a crotch.

2. crotchet ·vi to play music in measured time.

3. crotchet ·noun a bracket. ·see bracket.

4. crotchet ·noun a perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.

5. crotchet ·noun an instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.

6. crotchet ·noun an indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

7. 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.

8. 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.