crotchets
noun
Meaning
- A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- A whim or a fancy
- A forked support; a crotch.
- An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- 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.
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