Crook

Crook - Other Definitions

• (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.
  
  
• tube () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.