A whim; a fancy; a twist of the mind, like the crotch or crome of a stick. (See Crook.)
“The duke hath crotchets in him.”
Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, iii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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