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Crook

Crook Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Crook? [n] a long staff with one end being hook shaped [n] someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime [n] a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" [v] bend or cause to bend Synonyms \| Synonyms for Crook: bend \| criminal \| curve \| felon \| malefactor \| outlaw \| shepherd's crook \| turn Related Terms \| Find terms related to Crook: aberrancy \| aberration \| advocate \| alpenstock \| andiron \| angle \| angle off \| apex \| appropriate \| arc \| arch \| arm \| athletic supporter \| back \| backbone \| backing \| bad person \| bandeau \| baton \| bear off \| bearer \| beat \| bend \| bend back \| bent \| betrayer \| bias \| bifurcate \| bifurcation \| bight \| bilk \| blackleg \| body snatcher \| booster \| bow \| bra \| brace \| bracer \| bracket \| branch \| branching off \| brassiere \| buckle \| buttress \| caduceus \| cane \| cant \| carrier \| catacaustic \| catenary \| caustic \| cervix \| chain \| chain of office \| cheat \| 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Bonney \| wrongdoer Crook In Webster's Dictionary \Crook\ (kr[oo^]k), n. [OE. crok; akin to Icel. kr[onac]kr hook, bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. {Crosier}, {Crotchet}, {Crutch}, {Encroach}.] 1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. --Phaer. 2. Any implement having a bent or crooked end. Especially: (a) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep. (b) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. {Pastoral staff}. He left his crook, he left his flocks. --Prior. 3. A pothook. ``As black as the crook.'' --Sir W. Scott. 4. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. --Cranmer. 5. (Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.] {By hook or by crook}, in some way or other; by fair means or foul. \Crook\ (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crooked} (kr??kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crooking}.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr?ka, Dan. kr?ge. See Crook, n.] 1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak. 2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. --Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. --Bacon. \Crook\, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. `` The port . . . crooketh like a bow.'' --Phaer. Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. --Camden.

Crook Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crook?

[n] a long staff with one end being hook shaped
[n] someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
[n] a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
[v] bend or cause to bend

Crook In Webster's Dictionary

\Crook\ (kr[oo^]k), n. [OE. crok; akin to Icel. kr[onac]kr
hook, bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael.
crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. {Crosier},
{Crotchet}, {Crutch}, {Encroach}.]
1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

         Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. --Phaer.

2. Any implement having a bent or crooked end. Especially:
   (a) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves
       to hold a runaway sheep.
   (b) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. {Pastoral staff}.

             He left his crook, he left his flocks. --Prior.

3. A pothook. ``As black as the crook.'' --Sir W. Scott.

4. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

         For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. --Cranmer.

5. (Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet,
   horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of
   thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

{By hook or by crook}, in some way or other; by fair means or
   foul.


\Crook\ (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crooked} (kr??kt);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Crooking}.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr?ka, Dan.
kr?ge. See Crook, n.]
1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

         Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak.

2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to
   misapply; to twist. [Archaic]

         There is no one thing that crooks youth more than
         such unlawfull games.                 --Ascham.

         What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he
         crooketh them to his own ends.        --Bacon.


\Crook\, v. i.
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. `` The port
. . . crooketh like a bow.'' --Phaer.

      Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more
      than a finger long, crooking upwards.    --Camden.

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