Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Architecture A projecting ornament, usually in the form of cusp or curling leaf, placed along outer angles of pinnacles and gables.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large roll or lock of hair, characteristic of a manner of dressing the hair common in the fourteenth century. It consisted of a stiff roll, probably made over a piece of stuff, like the “rats” worn by women during the nineteenth century.
- n. One of the terminal snags on a stag's horn.
- n. In medieval architecture, a pointed decoration, an ornament most frequently treated as recurved foliage, placed on the angles of the inclined sides of pinnacles, canopies, gables, and other members, and on the outer or convex part of the curve of a pastoral staff or other decorative work. Sometimes crockets were carved in the forms of animals.
Wiktionary
- n. architecture Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Arch.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.
- n. A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable
Etymologies
- Middle English croket, ornamental curl of hair, hook, from Old North French croquet, shepherd's crook, diminutive of croque, variant of Old French croche; see crochet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I agree it sucks that people can buy animals like this but that is why the boone and crocket and pope and young have the fair chase.”
“I would trust her to do mount and stuff any prized boon and crocket trofie But any way she is a deadly shot with a rifle and shotgun.”
“Did a Dove boy kill a buck on sunflower that scored over 195 boone and crocket”
“She could barely see the king for the blaze of diamonds on his buckles and buttons and hat crocket.”
“Hardly a year passed without something falling down; sometimes a piece of a pinnacle, sometimes a crocket or other ornament, sometimes a shaft.”
“Next came the most delicate moment of all, for with a less certain grip on the crocket I had to kick a second hole lower down, and transfer my hand-hold from the stone to the wooden lath laid bare by my first kicks.”
“I am told that it was a bad few moments for the lookers-on when they saw me lower myself sideways from my crocket and begin to hammer on the slates with my toes: for at first they did not comprehend, and then they reasoned that the slates were new, and if I failed to kick through them, to pull myself back to the crocket again would be a desperate job.”
“I sat astride the topmost crocket, and glancing down between my boot heels, spied the carriage with its pair of greys flattened upon the roadway just beyond the verge of the battlements, and Mr. Scougall himself dancing and waving his arms like a small but very lively beetle.”
“This bursts out, young and irresponsible, in pinnacle, crocket, and gable, in towers like spears, and in the eager lancet windows which peer upwards out of”
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett
“The statues are there, but are modern, of the namby-pamby school, and of the original tomb possibly a crocket and a cusp may remain.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crocket’.
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forms/acts: art
threnody, eisegesis, imbricate, screed, lapis, requiem, colophon, homunculus, deus ex machina, apophthegm, anastrophe, anaphora and 47 more...
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strange plurals
words with unusual plurals - singular form being the plural form, obsolete formations without 's', etc.
shoon, crocket, crotchet, quare, aëtheogamous, binoculars, antelope, luggage, police, furniture, aircraft, macaroni and 32 more...
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spires
arcospire, inspire, squinch, perspire, spirea, aspire, suspire, transpire, leptospire, crocket, whorl, helicoid and 10 more...
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graphism
of or related to drawing—forms, tools, techniques, processes, practices, etc.
limn, vectorial, limned, synecdoche, adumbrate, lapis, colophon, grapheme, isogloss, sciagraphy, palimpsest, homunculus and 18 more...
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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wilde
prudery, milieu, mephitic, putrefaction, equerry, carnelian, hydropic, antithetical, antinomian, facile, laburnum, tussore and 67 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "At the top of the street, into which, with my guide-book, I relapsed, was an old market-cross of the fifteenth century—a florid, romantic little structure. It consists of a stone pavilion, with open sides and a number of pinnacles and crockets and buttresses, besides a goodly medallion of the high-nosed visage of Charles I, which was placed above one of the arches, at the Restoration, in compensation for the violent havoc wrought upon the little town by the Parliamentary soldiers, who had wrested the place from the Royalists and who amused themselves, in their grim fashion, with infinite hacking and hewing in the cathedral."
"English Vignettes" in English Hours by Henry James, p 147 of the Oxford paperback edition Sep 28, 2010
bilby Parquet. Sep 30, 2008