crocketing

English

Etymology

crocket +‎ -ing

Noun

crocketing (plural crocketings)

1. (architecture) ornamentation with crockets
   • 1869, John Ruskin, Flamboyant Architecture in the Valley of the Somme:

     There is no lace work , no crocketing , no tracery , no construction to speak of

   • 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2:

     And there, in the centre of the picture, with its carved back scarcely three feet below the soil, is the throne of the ancient king, with the lines of its strange crocketing fresh and unchipped.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crocketing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)