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.

crook
Sixpence. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Throw-crook
·noun An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
crook back
Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see CRIPPLE. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
crook shanks
A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
crook-lug
a long pole with a hook at the end of it, used for pulling down dead branches of trees. Glou. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
racking crook
a crane, or pot-hook. Northumb. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
crook your elbow
To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--ac...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
by hook or by crook
One way or other; by any expedient.--Johnson. It can't be done by hook or crook, Unless your Highn...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.