Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key..

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Curvicaudate :: Curvicaudate (a.) Having a curved or crooked tail.
Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Antiguggler :: Antiguggler (n.) A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise..
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.
Crookedness :: Crookedness (n.) The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness..
Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..
Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Incurve :: Incurve (v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc..
Straightly :: Straightly (adv.) In a right line; not crookedly.
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
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..
Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Crooked :: Crooked (imp. & p. p.) of Croo.
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
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