| Crotchet: English to English |
| Crotchet (n.) A bracket. See Bracket. |
| Crotchet (n.) A forked support; a crotch. |
| Crotchet (n.) A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit. |
| Crotchet (n.) 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. |
| Crotchet (n.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed. |
| Crotchet (n.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. |
| Crotchet (n.) 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. |
| Crotchet (v. i.) To play music in measured time. |