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

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

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..

Turnspit :: Turnspit (n.) A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.

Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

Sinuous :: Sinuous (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.

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..

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

Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.

Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..

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

Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.

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..

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

Hump :: Hump (n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back..

Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..

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

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

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