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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Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
Crook :: Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings..
Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc..
Curvity :: Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
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..
Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
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.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A pothook.
Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..
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..
Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
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