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