Definition of crook

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

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Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..
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..
Incurvate :: Incurvate (a.) Curved; bent; crooked.
Sinuous :: Sinuous (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..
Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
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.
Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
Cops :: Cops (n.) The connecting crook of a harrow.
Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..
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.
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.
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..
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.
Direct :: Direct (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken..
Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A crooked back; a humped back.
Crookack :: Crookack (a.) Hunched.
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key..
Crooken :: Crooken (v. t.) To make crooked.
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