Crook

Definition:

  • (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.

Compare crook with other words:

acrook vs. crook

crock vs. crook

crook vs. croon

croak vs. crook

brook vs. crook

crook vs. rook

cook vs. crook

charlatan vs. crook

chook vs. crook

crook vs. hook

crook vs. sheephook

crook vs. liar

crook vs. perpetrator

crook vs. wrongdoer

cheater vs. crook

crook vs. swindler

criminal vs. crook

cheat vs. crook

crook vs. twist

crook vs. crosier

cops vs. crook

crook vs. swindle

crook vs. villain

crook vs. hunch

crook vs. twister

crook vs. pastoral

akimbo vs. crook

angry vs. crook

crook vs. upset

crook vs. sick

crook vs. standard

crook vs. crooked

contrivance vs. crook

crook vs. trick

artifice vs. crook

crook vs. staff

crook vs. shepherd

crook vs. gibbet

crook vs. lock

crook vs. curl

crook vs. genuflection

bent vs. crook

crook vs. flexure

crook vs. curvature

crook vs. curve

crook vs. turn

bend vs. crook

crook vs. rod