crocketed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He leaned back on this support with his face to the tower of the cathedral, now admirably commanded by their standpoint, the high red-brown mass, square and subordinately spired and crocketted, retouched and restored, but charming to his long-sealed eyes, and with the first swallows of the year weaving their flight all round it."
- "A brief intermission of an Eighteenth Century Barnsdale Forest brought into view the high crocketed tower of Darfield Church on its rugged scarp, beneath whose graveyard gushes out what in the old days was the main water-supply of the village, the Bank Well."
- "For Woolworth, Gilbert designed a house that was similar, but lacier at the roof line, with intricate copper roof cresting and crocketed chimneys, and elaborately decorated dormers."
Etymology
From crocket + -ed.