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.
Definitions
- noun. A forked support; a crotch.
- noun. 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.
- noun. An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A bracket. See Bracket.
- noun. An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
- noun. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
- intransitive verb. To play music in measured time.
- noun. a small tool or hooklike implement
- noun. a strange attitude or habit
- noun. a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- noun. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
Synonyms
oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, hook
Common word forms
crotchets, crotcheted, crotcheting
Words from these letters
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