Crossword clues for crocket
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crocket \Crock"et\ (kr?k"?t), n. [OF. croquet, F. crochet, dim. of croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crotchet.]
(Arch.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.
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A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.
The antlers and the crockets.
--W. Black.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "curl of hair," from Anglo-French crocket, from northern French form of French crochet (see crochet). Meaning "ornamental device on a Gothic pediment" is from late 14c.
Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture
WordNet
n. an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable
Wikipedia
A crocket is a hook-shaped decorative element common in Gothic architecture.
Crocket may also refer to:
- Chibodee Crocket, a fictional character in the television series Mobile Fighter G Gundam
- James Crocket Wilson (1841–1899), Canadian businessman and politician
- Abbreviation of "Crit Rocket", a gameplay mechanic by the Team Fortress 2 Soldier character.
People with the surname Crocket:
- Henry Crocket (1870–1926), English painter
- Oswald Smith Crocket (1868–1945), Canadian lawyer
Usage examples of "crocket".
The windows of the aisle are delicately moulded with capitals to their shafts, and are ornamented with a crocketed gable, ogee-shaped and topped with a prominent finial rising just above the battlements of the aisle.
The buttresses of the aisles are decorated with gargoyles and crowned with pinnacles of a considerable size with crocketed spires and finials.
The square ends of both choir and aisles are decorated with arches with crocketed gables above them.
Below this is a cusped arch in each light of the triforium with a crocketed gable ending in a finial above it.
On each side of these windows, in the space between the windows and the vaulting shafts, is plain stone panelling terminating in an arch with a crocketed gable above it, ending in a finial which reaches to about the level of the spring of the window arch.
Each division is filled with a geometrical pattern of two panels, each panel ending in a trefoil, with a circular trefoil in the head of each division, and a crocketed gable, terminating in a rich finial above it.
Birds alighted on crocketed chair-backs and on damasked helmets of war.
Forests of towers and crocketted pinnacles punctured the drifts of stars, stabbing up from amid decorated gables.
Wheeling through the barbs of the crocketted pinnacles, she noticed three winged shapes in the sky, speeding toward the fortress, and knew them to be the Crows of War.
Its pinnacles and crockets and other ornaments were, like the body of the building, all of pine wood,--an admirable material, as it is very soft and easily worked, and can be painted of any color desired.