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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Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings..
Bowleg :: Bowleg (n.) A crooked leg.
Incurvate :: Incurvate (a.) Curved; bent; crooked.
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..
Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
Curvity :: Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
Crump :: Crump (a.) Crooked; bent.
Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
Crooking :: Crooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croo.
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Sinuous :: Sinuous (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
Camoys :: Camoys (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.
Curvirostral :: Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill..
Knee-crooking :: Knee-crooking (a.) Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
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.
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..
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