Definizione monolingua

crotchet

crotchet (third-person singular simple present crotchets, present participle crotcheting, simple past and past participle crotcheted)

1. To make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle
2. (obsolete) To play music in measured time.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Donne to this entry?)

crotchet (plural crotchets)

1. (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
2. A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).
3. (archaic) a whim or a fancy
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy

     Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets, thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms […]

Definizione dizionario crotchet

	semiminima
	musical note

gancio

uncino

Altri significati:

(archaic) a whim or a fancy

To make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle

A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).

(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.