Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of crook is as below...

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.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

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..

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

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..

Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..

Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..

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

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

Game :: Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg..

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

Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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

Straightly :: Straightly (adv.) In a right line; not crookedly.

Zigzaggery :: Zigzaggery (n.) The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.

Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..

Curvirostral :: Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill..

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

Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.

Random Fonts

Most Popular