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noun

Crocket n.

(Arch.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. "The antlers and the crockets."

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Etymology of 'Crocket'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crocket" Quotes from Famous Books

... to remember that not only do the associated features of the larger architecture tend to excite the strength of fancy, but the architectural laws to which you are obliged to submit your decoration stimulate its ingenuity. Every crocket which you are to crest with sculpture,—every foliation which you have to fill, presents itself to the spectator's fancy, not only as a pretty thing, but as a problematic thing. It contained, he perceives immediately, not only a beauty which you wished to display, but a ...

— The Two Paths • John Ruskin

... Colored Infantry, in this fight, probably fired the last angry volley of the war, and Sergeant Crocket of that regiment (three days after Jefferson Davis' capture) received the last wound from a rebel hostile bullet, and hence shed the last fresh blood in the war resulting in the freedom of his race in the United States. The observation irresistibly comes, that on the scene of the ...

— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer