Crocket

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture.
  2. 2
    The tips of the antlers of an adult stag. British, dialectal, obsolete
  3. 3
    Archaic spelling of croquette. alt-of, archaic
  4. 4
    an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English croket, from Anglo-Norman croquet (“curl of hair”), from Old Northern French, variant of Old French crochet, diminutive of croc (“hook”), which is also present in English archaically in the architectural sense as crochet, crotchet. Doublet of crochet, croquet, and crotchet.

Etymology 2

Etymology unknown.

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