CROTCHET
\kɹˈɒt͡ʃɪt], \kɹˈɒtʃɪt], \k_ɹ_ˈɒ_tʃ_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of CROTCHET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a small tool or hook-like implement
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a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
By Princeton University
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a small tool or hook-like implement
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a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A forked support; a crotch.
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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.
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An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
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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.
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A bracket. See Bracket.
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An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
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A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
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To play music in measured time.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A whim; eccentricity.
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A quarter note.
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A small hook.
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Crotchetiness.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Hamus. A small hook or crook. (F.) Crochet. An obstetrical instrument, whose name indicates its shape, and which is used in the extraction of the foetus, when it becomes necessary to destroy it to expedite delivery. Crotchets are differently formed; some are sharp, others blunt; some contained in a sheath, others naked.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [French] A forked piece of wood; a crotch; —the third principal note, equal in duration to half a minim, marked with a hook, the stem of which may turn up or down according to its situation; —a bracket; —a perverse fancy; a capricious opinion; a whim.
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