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Crotchet


CROTCHET, noun [See Crook.]

1. In printing, a hook including words, a sentence or a passage distinguished form the rest, thus [ ].

2. In music, a note or character, equal in time to half a minim, and double of a quaver.

3. A piece of wood resembling a fork, used as a support in building.

4. A peculiar turn of the mind; a whim, or fancy; a perverse conceit.

All the devices and crotchets of new inventions.