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Crook   /krʊk/   Listen
noun
crook  n.  
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 staff. "He left his crook, he left his flocks."
3.
A pothook. "As black as the crook."
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.


verb
Crook  v. t.  (past & past part. crooked; pres. part. crooking)  
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  v. i.  To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " The port... crooketh like a bow." "Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards."





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"Crook" Quotes from Famous Books



... usually known. They stretch out and crook about here and there, penetrating the crevices of the soil wherever there is the least chance, and the matured portions begin to shorten, reminding one somewhat of an angleworm when one end has been stepped on. By this shortening process the top or crown of a dandelion ...
— Seed Dispersal • William J. Beal
... near and a weight is missing it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water. The idea was at least worth testing; so with the help of Ames, who admitted me to the room, and the crook of Dr. Watson's umbrella, I was able last night to fish up ...
— The Valley of Fear • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... be a crook too. I learned to play with marked cards. I could tell every card in the deck. I ran a stud-poker game, with a Jap an' a Chinaman for partners. They were quicker than white men, an' less likely to lose ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... wait," growled the chief. "Haggerty has evidently got us all balled up. I don't believe his fashionable thief has materialized at all; just a common crook. Well, he's got him, at ...
— Hearts and Masks • Harold MacGrath
... quite to the opposite side of the millpond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane. Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life ...
— The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Washington Irving


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