Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

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Twistical :: Twistical (a.) Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest..
Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Corbe :: Corbe (a.) Crooked.
Incurve :: Incurve (v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
Crookack :: Crookack (a.) Hunched.
Crump :: Crump (a.) Crooked; bent.
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
Straight :: Straight (superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber..
Crook :: Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..
Curvation :: Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.
Bent :: Bent (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow..
Bandy-legged :: Bandy-legged (a.) Having crooked legs.
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.
Curvirostral :: Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill..
Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
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..
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