Definition of crook

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

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Zigzaggery :: Zigzaggery (n.) The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.
Curvity :: Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Sheephook :: Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook..
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
Distortion :: Distortion (n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion..
Crook :: Crook (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key..
Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
Camoys :: Camoys (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.
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..
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..
Cowhage :: Cowhage (n.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge..
Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees..
Crookes Tube :: Crookes tube () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it..
Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..
Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
Knee-crooking :: Knee-crooking (a.) Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
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..
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