Crook
[krʊk]
Definition
(noun.) a long staff with one end being hook shaped.
(verb.) bend or cause to bend; 'He crooked his index finger'; 'the road curved sharply'.
Editor: Mamie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
(n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
(n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
(n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
(n.) A pothook.
(n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
(n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
(n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
(n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
(n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
(v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bend, flexure, curvature, turn.
v. a. Bend, curve, incurvate, bow, inflect, make crooked.
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Definition
n. a bend anything bent: a curved tube used to lower the pitch of a cornet &c.: the bending of the body in reverence: a staff bent at the end as a shepherd's or bishop's: an artifice or trick: (Spens.) gibbet.—v.t. to bend or form into a hook: to turn from the straight line or from what is right.—v.i. to bend or be bent.—n. Crook′back (Shak.) a hunchback.—adj. Crook′backed; Crook′ed bent like a crook: not straight: deviating from rectitude perverse.—adv. Crook′edly.—n. Crook′edness.—adjs. Crook′-kneed; Crook′-shoul′dered.—A crook in the lot any trial in one's experience.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
One who exceeds the speed limit in Law & Order Ave. A Misfit in the Straight and Narrow Way.
Typist: Vance
Examples
- Here is his reply: 'The most dangerous crook in Chicago. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was in the service of a farmer; and with crook in hand, my dog at my side, I shepherded a numerous flock on the near uplands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They live by the crook and the bow; half shepherds, half hunters, their flocks wander wild as their prey. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- After the battle he formed a junction at Staunton with Averell and Crook, who had come up from the Kanawha, or Gauley River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With my pastoral crook I went over the brook, And behold I am spread into bands! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In most things he'll get it by hook or by crook, but--hang it all! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Finding that he was not pursued he turned back to Winchester, where Crook was stationed with a small force, and drove him out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A wooden peg, a foot and a half high, with two slight crooks or curves in one side of it and one in the other, projects above the starboard gunwale. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The streets generally are four or five to eight feet wide and as crooked as a corkscrew. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am inclined to think that the percentage of crooked people was smaller when I was young. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No, because I shall hae the crooked sixpence. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I afterward found that he had been previously mixed up with a somewhat similar crooked job in connection with telephone patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ah, bah, old intriguer, crooked little puppet! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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