Definition of crook

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

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Bowleg :: Bowleg (n.) A crooked leg.
Futtock :: Futtock (n.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.
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..
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
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..
Camoys :: Camoys (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.
Curvation :: Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.
Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl..
Sheephook :: Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook..
Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
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.
Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
Crookack :: Crookack (a.) Hunched.
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.
Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
Cops :: Cops (n.) The connecting crook of a harrow.
Akimbo :: Akimbo (a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..
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