Crook1. (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
2. (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
3. (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
4. (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
5. (n.) A pothook.
6. (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
7. (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
8. (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
9. (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
10. (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
11. (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
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