Usually means: Quarter note in music duration.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word crotchet:

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  1. crotchet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. crotchet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crotchet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crotchet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crotchet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crotchet, crotchet: Wordnik
  7. crotchet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crotchet: Wiktionary
  9. crotchet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crotchet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crotchet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crotchet: Dictionary.com
  13. Crotchet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Crotchet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. crotchet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. crotchet: Rhymezone
  17. Crotchet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. crotchet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. crotchet: Free Dictionary
  20. crotchet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. crotchet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Crotchet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. crotchet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crotchet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crotchet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crotchet: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See crotcheting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
noun:  (obsolete) A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
noun:  (surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
noun:  (archaic) A whim or a fancy.
noun:  A forked support; a crotch.
noun:  (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
noun:  (military) 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:  (printing) A square bracket.
verb:  (obsolete) to play music in measured time
verb:  Archaic form of crochet (knit by looping) [(transitive, intransitive) To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle; to make interlocking loops of thread.]

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