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crotcheting

crotcheting is the present participle and gerund of crotchet.

Meaning of crotchet

Verb

crotchet (third-person singular simple present crotchets, present participle crotcheting, simple past and past participle crotcheted)

  1. (obsolete) to play music in measured time
    • The nimblest crotcheting musiciana. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC

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Questions about crotcheting

What is crotcheting the present participle and gerund of?
Crotcheting is the present participle and gerund of crotchet.

Words near crotcheting in the dictionary

  1. crotchetier
  2. crotchetiest
  3. crotchetily
  4. crotchetiness
  5. crotchetinesses
  6. crotcheting
  7. crotchets
  8. crotchety
  9. Crotchey
  10. crotchfruit
  11. crotchfruits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crotcheting (page history and authors); crotchet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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