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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Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..
Bunch-backed :: Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
Cowhage :: Cowhage (n.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge..
Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..
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.
Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; awry.
Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..
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..
Akimbo :: Akimbo (a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
Crookedness :: Crookedness (n.) The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness..
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
Bend :: Bend (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road..
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..
Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Right :: Right (a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line..
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..
Crooken :: Crooken (v. t.) To make crooked.
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