[f. CROTCHET sb.1] † a. To break a longer note up into crotchets (obs.). b. To affect with crotchets. c. To ornament with crotchets or crockets. Hence Crotcheted ppl. a.
1587. J. Harmar, trans. Beza’s Serm., 267 (T.). Not these cantels & morsels of scriptures warbled, quauered and, crochetted to giue pleasure vnto the eares.
c. 1600. Donne, Elegies, i. Jealousie, Drawing his breath, as thick and short, as can The nimblest crocheting Musitian.
1628. Ford, Lover’s Mel., II. ii. You are but whimsied yet, crotcheted, conundrumed.
1892. Lichfield Mercury, 25 March, 8/5. Look up … through the slender branches—crochetted almost to the tips…. There is no need to wonder where the architects … got their idea of crochetting the spires and pinnacles of our Cathedral.
