adjective. Out of order; faulty.

adjective. Not well; ill.

adjective. Of poor quality; inferior.

adjective. Not honest; crooked.

noun. An implement or tool, such as a bishop's crosier or a shepherd's staff, with a bent or curved part.

noun. A part that is curved or bent like a hook.

noun. A curve or bend; a turn.

noun. One who makes a living by dishonest methods.

intransitive verb. To make a crook in; bend.

intransitive verb. To bend or curve.

noun. undefined

noun. A name given to both the parenthesis ( ) and the square bracket [].

To bend; cause to assume an angular or a curved form; make a curve or hook in.

To curl (hair). Ayenbite of Inwit, p. 176.

To turn; pervert; misapply.

To thwart.

To bend or be bent; be turned from a right line; curve; wind.

Specifically To bend the knee; crouch.

noun. Any bend, turn, or curve; a curvature; a flexure: as, a crook in a river or in a piece of timber.

noun. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.

noun. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion of anything: as, the crook of a cane or of an umbrella-handle.

noun. An instrument or implement having a crook, or distinguished by its curved form.

noun. The pastoral staff of a bishop or an abbot, fashioned in the form of a shepherd's staff, as a symbol of his sway over and care for his flock. Such staves are generally gilt, ornamented with jewels, and enriched by carving, etc. Compare pastoral staff, under staff.

noun. A hook hung in an open chimney to support a pot or kettle; a pot-hook or trammel.

noun. In music: A short tube, either curved or straight, that may be inserted into various metal wind-instruments so as to lengthen their tube, and thus lower their fundamental tone or key. The curved metal tube between the mouthpiece and the body of a bassoon.

noun. A sickle.

noun. A lock or curl of hair. Compare crocket.

noun. A gibbet.

noun. A support consisting of a post or pile with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.

noun. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.

noun. A dishonest person; one who is crooked in conduct; a tricky or underhand schemer; a thief; a swindley.

intransitive verb. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

noun. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

noun. Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

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

noun. A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

noun. A pothook.

noun. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

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

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

noun. in some way or other; by fair means or foul.

transitive verb. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

transitive verb. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

noun. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

noun. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.

noun. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

noun. A lock or curl of hair.

noun. A gibbet.

noun. A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.

noun. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.

"How many times do we have to tell you a crook is a crook is a crook."

bend  by hook  curve  sinuosity  to crook the elbow  

by hook or by crook  by hook or crook  

staff  

Brook  Brooke  Chinook  Cook  Cooke  

gnarled  jagged  narrow  slender  stiff  

Judas  L  Malacca cane  aberrancy  aberration  

pastoral staff  

crooked  crooking  crooks