01 n. A forked support; a crotch.
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A forked support; a crotch.“The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.” — Dryden.
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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.(Mus.)
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An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.(Fort.)
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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.(Mil.)
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An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.(Med.)
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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.