crotchet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
3. isim 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.”

4. isim 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!"”

5. isim 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: [...]”

6. isim An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
7. isim 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.
8. isim A square bracket.
9. fiil to play music in measured time

   “The nimblest crotcheting musician”

10. fiil Archaic form of crochet (“knit by looping”).