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Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..

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.

Crook :: Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

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..

Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.

Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A crooked back; a humped back.

Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

Twisted :: Twisted (a.) Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted..

Incurve :: Incurve (v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..

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..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc..

Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.

Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar..

Bandy-legged :: Bandy-legged (a.) Having crooked legs.

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

Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..

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