Definition of crotchet
- n. - A forked support; a crotch.
- 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.
- n. - An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a
point where a traverse is placed.
- 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.
- n. - A bracket. See Bracket.
- n. - An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in
the extraction of a fetus.
- n. - A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the
mind; a conceit.
- v. i. - To play music in measured time.