noun. A projecting ornament, usually in the form of a cusp or curling leaf, placed along outer angles of pinnacles and gables.

noun. A large roll or lock of hair, characteristic of a manner of dressing the hair common in the fourteenth century. It consisted of a stiff roll, probably made over a piece of stuff, like the “rats” worn by women during the nineteenth century.

noun. One of the terminal snags on a stag's horn.

noun. In medieval architecture, a pointed decoration, an ornament most frequently treated as recurved foliage, placed on the angles of the inclined sides of pinnacles, canopies, gables, and other members, and on the outer or convex part of the curve of a pastoral staff or other decorative work. Sometimes crockets were carved in the forms of animals.

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

noun. A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.

noun. Any of a series of hook-shaped decorative floral elements used in Gothic architecture

noun. an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable

"I agree it sucks that people can buy animals like this but that is why the boone and crocket and pope and young have the fair chase."

architectural ornament  

crotchet  ornament