The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CROTCHET
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More clues leading to the result CROTCHET
- Note needlework around front of tapestry
- Hook tailors originally used in handicraft
- Endlessly bad-tempered note
- Cross, but not quite to the end, note
- Note assailant finally boarding craft
- There’s little time to get into needlework, note
- Note fork
- Note nonsense about man in court
- Note body part getting extremely erect
- Bad-tempered, having lost the original of your note
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What does CROTCHET mean?
CROTCHET verb- To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle; to make interlocking loops of thread.
- A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- A whim or a fancy
- A forked support; a crotch.
- An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
- A square bracket.
- To play music in measured time