crotchet

Mr. Webster could not have hit my crotchet more exactly, if he had taken aim at it on purpose.

Mediocrity had only seen the gawky stripling, with his moonstruck air, and pestilent habit of trying some new crotchet.

Where these means fail, and it is impossible to extract the child alive, the blunt hook or crotchet must be employed.

She put her foot down 29 on this little crotchet, and pressed this passing desire out of sight.