Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

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Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key..
Hump :: Hump (n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back..
Hawked :: Hawked (a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
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.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..
Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Curve :: Curve (a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it..
Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A crooked back; a humped back.
Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
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..
Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl..
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.
Cammock :: Cammock (n.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock..
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