crotch·et /ˈkrɑʧət/
怪想,奇想,反復無常,小鉤
Crotch·et, v. i. To play music in measured time. [Obs.]
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Crotch·et n.
1. A forked support; a crotch.
The crotchets of their cot in columns rise. --Dryden.
2. Mus. 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.
3. Fort. An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
4. Mil. 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.
5. Print. A bracket. See Bracket.
6. Med. An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. --De Quincey.
crotchet
n 1: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn: hook]
2: a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole
note [syn: quarter note]
3: a strange attitude or habit [syn: oddity, queerness, quirk,
quirkiness]
4: a small tool or hook-like implement