crook

[crook]

A crook is long staff that’s bent at one end, like something you might see a shepherd carrying. A crook can also be a criminal a person who’s dishonest, or bent, just like the staff.

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A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

Noun
a long staff with one end being hook shaped

Noun
someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

Noun
a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"

Verb
bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"

n.
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

n.
Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

n.
The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.

n.
A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

n.
A pothook.

n.
An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

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

n.
A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.

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

n.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

v. i.
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Crook

Crook (kr??k), n. [OE. crok; akin to Icel. krk hook,bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael. crecan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. Crosier, Crotchet, Crutch, Encroach.] 1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness.

2. Any implement having a bent or crooked end. Especially: (a) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep. (b) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral stafu.

He left his crook, he left his flocks.

3. A pothook. "As black as the crook." Sir W. Scott. 4. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks.

5. (Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.] By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul.

Crook

Crook (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooked (kr??kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crooking.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. krka, Dan. krge. See Crook, n.] 1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.

2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic]

There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.

What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.

Crook

Crook, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " The port . . . crooketh like a bow." Phaer.

Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

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Usage Examples

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

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Other Usage Examples

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.