crotchet

• a sharp curve or crook
• a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
• a strange attitude or habit
• a small tool or hooklike implement
• A forked support
• 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
• An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed
• 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
• A bracket
• An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus
• A perverse fancy
• To play music in measured time

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