Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..

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Curvation :: Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.
Antiguggler :: Antiguggler (n.) A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise..
Crook :: Crook (n.) A pothook.
Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..
Knee-crooking :: Knee-crooking (a.) Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
Bent :: Bent (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow..
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Serpent :: Serpent (v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee..
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings..
Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.
Incurvate :: Incurvate (a.) Curved; bent; crooked.
Golf :: Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..
Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
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