Dictionary Entry
crotchet
crotchet is a 8-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A forked support; a crotch. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A forked support; a crotch.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
A bracket. See Bracket.
- 6noun
An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
- 7noun
A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
- 8intransitive verb
To play music in measured time.
- 9noun
a small tool or hooklike implement
- 10noun
a strange attitude or habit
Synonyms
- 11noun
a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- 12noun
a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
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