English Dictionary

crotchet

/ˈkɹɑt͡ʃ.ɪt/

noun

(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time. / (obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

She played a crotchet on the piano.

意味（1）

(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.

The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.

意味（2）

(obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

意味（3）

(surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.

Either Doctor Denman or an old Woman would have waited—but since the horrid death-doing Crotchet has been found out, & its use permitted—Oh! many & many a Life has been flung away.

意味（4）

(archaic) 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; … dost thou call that liberty!

意味（5）

A forked support; a crotch.

Their little Shed, ſcarce large enough for Two, / Seems, from the Ground increas'd, in Height and Bulk to grow. / A ſtately Temple ſhoots within the Skies, / The Crotchets of their Cot in Columns riſe: …

意味（6）

(military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

意味（7）

(military) 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.

意味（8）

(printing) A square bracket.