Also 4 croket. [a. AF. croket, croquet, northern Fr. form of F. crochet (used in senses 1 and 2), dim. of OF. croche, ONF. croque: see CROCHET, CROQUET.]
† 1. A curl or roll of hair formerly worn. Obs.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 3208. Be nat proude of þy croket [trop geluz de sun croket].
c. 1325. Poem times Edw. II., in Pol. Songs (Camden), 329. He set upon a koife, and kembeth the croket.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 370. His croket kempt and theron set An ouche, with a chapelet.
2. Arch. ‘One of the small ornaments placed on the inclined sides of pinnacles, pediments, canopies, etc. in Gothic architecture’ (Gwilt); usually in the form of buds or curled leaves, sometimes of animals. (Also crochet, CROTCHET 4.)
[c. 1394. P. Pl. Crede, 174: see CROTCHET.]
1673. E. Brown, Trav. Germ. (1677), 80. This Spire hath the largest Crockets I have observed in any.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Posth. Wks. (1712), 34. Eight leaves of stone spreading outward, under which begin the eight rows of crockets.
1811. Milner, Eccl. Archit. Eng., 104. Adorned with the representation of foliage along the jambs called crockets.
1849. Freeman, Archit., 296. Rows of canopied niches, with crocket and finial.
1874. Parker, Goth. Archit., 321–2. Gloss., Crocket … supposed to be derived from the resemblance to a shepherd’s crook.
3. One of the terminal ‘buds’ or knobs on a stag’s horn; = CROCHE sb.2
1870. Blaine, Encycl. Rural Sports, § 1796. His [the stag’s] crockets are the upright points of his horns.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, xxv. 414. You will discourse … of the span and the pearls, of the antlers and the crockets.
4. attrib. and Comb. (in sense 2): = ‘decorated with, or characterized by, crockets.’
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 155. Some distorted Arches are made use of in crocket Windows, &c. Ibid., 194. Crocket-work, (or Fret-work, as some Glaziers call it).
1879. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 153. During the first half of the thirteenth century these crocket capitals were brought to very high perfection.
