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Crook   /krʊk/   Listen
noun
crook  n.  
1.
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. "Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness."
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."
3.
A pothook. "As black as the crook."
4.
An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. "For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks."
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.



verb
Crook  v. t.  (past & past part. crooked; pres. part. crooking)  
1.
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. "Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee."
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." "What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends."



Crook  v. i.  To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " The port... crooketh like a bow." "Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards."






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"Crook" Quotes from Famous Books



... idea about the Volsky family is a good one. We'll try it out, dear! There was a MAN, once, Who said: 'Suffer the little children to come—'Why, Rose-Marie, what's the matter?" For Rose-Marie, her face hidden in the crook of her elbow, was crying ...
— The Island of Faith • Margaret E. Sangster

... could reach that old crook up on the bench I would twist his nose," remarked Mr. Tutt to Tutt with an air of consulting him about the Year Books. "And as for that criminal O'Brien, I'll ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train

... and father; "he'll have some trouble opening that box. It was the strongest box I have ever seen of the kind, made of iron reinforced with steel bands, with a combination lock that would baffle even your friend, Richards, Grace, who appeared to be a pretty sharp crook." ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower

... followed her Kingdom, my mind to me a Kings it makes gods Kiss, one kind, before we part —, my whole soul through a —snatched hasty Kisses after death remembered Kitten, and cry mew Knave, how absolute the, is Knaves, untaught, unmannerly Knee, crook the hinges of the Knell that summons thee —, the shroud, etc. —rung by fairy hands Knew, carry all he Knife, war to the Knight, a prince can mak' a belted Knock and it shall be opened Know then thyself Known, to be ...
— Familiar Quotations • Various

... overflow of the eaves. It was still light enough to see the fine color of the leather that covered the armchairs, and the glossy black of a piano, heaped with a litter of music. Near the piano, leaning against the wall, a violoncello curved its brown crook-neck over the ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield


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