Definition of crook

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

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Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
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..
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..
Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees..
Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..
Crook :: Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
Cam :: Cam (a.) Crooked.
Bandy :: Bandy (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg..
Serpent :: Serpent (v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
Bunch-backed :: Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
Crump :: Crump (a.) Crooked; bent.
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A crooked back; a humped back.
Crooken :: Crooken (v. t.) To make crooked.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl..
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..
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