How to pronounce “crotchet”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
• (obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
• (surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
• (archaic) A whim or a fancy.
• A forked support; a crotch.
• (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
• (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.
• (printing) A square bracket.
• [Verb]
• (obsolete) to play music in measured time
• Archaic form of crochet (“knit by looping”).

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