Crook

·noun A Pothook.

II. Crook ·noun Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

III. Crook ·noun A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

IV. Crook ·noun An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

V. Crook ·noun A bishop's staff of office. ·cf. Pastoral staff.

VI. Crook ·noun A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, ·etc.

VII. Crook ·noun The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.

VIII. Crook ·noun A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, ·etc., to change its pitch or key.

IX. Crook ·noun To turn from a straight line; to Bend; to Curve.

X. Crook ·vi To Bend; to Curve; to Wind; to have a curvature.

XI. Crook ·noun To turn from the path of rectitude; to Pervert; to Misapply; to Twist.