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crochettus

crochettus, ~a [OF crochet] 1 ‘crotchet’, little hook: a (for fastening); b (used for theft); c (used on shipboard). d crook of hinge. Cf. croculus, 2 crocus. a 1224 duos ~os ad supertunicam Pat 449; 1275 (v. 1 carda).  b 1309 fecit crokettum de quodam cultello et aperuit hostium celarii S. Jers. XVIII 331.  c 1284 pro diversis crokett’, stapell’, rengis ferreis et aliis diversis ferramentis emptis ad easdem [bargias] KR Ac 467/9 m. 9; pro corda, pro j tablerio, pro xiiij crochetis emptis pro galeia Ac. H. Derby 281.  d 1332 Willelmo le Lokier ‥ pro ccc ~is grossis ‥ et iiij †serucis [? l. seruris] emptis ‥ pro capella, aula et camera domine Alianore (KRAc 386/7) Arch. LXXVII 126. 2 crotchet (mus.). addendo duas figuras, sc. longam et minimam, nomina duarum figurarum, sc. minime et crochete, volo mutare Hauboys 405a.

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