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Meaning Of Crook

  1. 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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