Vocabulary : Crotalo to Crotchet

Crotalo : A Turkish musical instrument.
Crotalum : A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.
Crotalus : A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.
Crotaphite : The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.
Crotaphitic : Pertaining to the temple; temporal.

Crotch : The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree. ;; A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch. ;; In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table. See Crotched, below. ;; To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to; as, to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots. ;; To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs in hauling.
Crotch chain : A form of tackle for loading a log sideways on a sled, skidway, etc.
Crotched : Having a crotch; forked. ;; Cross; peevish. ;; of Crotch ;; Lying within a crotch; -- said of the object balls in the three-ball carom game whenever the centers of both lie within a 4/-inch square at a corner of the table, in which case but three counts are allowed unless one or both balls be forced out of the crotch.
Crotches : of Crotch
Crotchet : A forked support; a crotch. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; A bracket. See Bracket. ;; An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. ;; A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit. ;; To play music in measured time.

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