Crook
Crook [1]
(1): (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
(2): (n.) A pothook.
(3): (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
(4): (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
(5): (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
(6): (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
(7): (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
(8): (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
(9): (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
(10): (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
(11): (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
