Definition of crook

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Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

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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.
Camoys :: Camoys (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.
Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
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..
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..
Incurve :: Incurve (v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.
Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A crooked back; a humped back.
Curvicaudate :: Curvicaudate (a.) Having a curved or crooked tail.
Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
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..
Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
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.
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..
Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..
Right :: Right (a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
Dachshund :: Dachshund (n.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired..
Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.
Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..
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