Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

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Crooked :: Crooked (imp. & p. p.) of Croo.
Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..
Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..
Crook :: Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..
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..
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
Straightly :: Straightly (adv.) In a right line; not crookedly.
Futtock :: Futtock (n.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A pothook.
Serpent :: Serpent (v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
Direct :: Direct (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means..
Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..
Curvirostral :: Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill..
Straight :: Straight (superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber..
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Curvity :: Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
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..
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