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Crook (kr&oocr;k), n. [OE.
crok; akin to Icel. kr&onac;kr hook, bend, SW.
krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael.
crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf.
Crosier, Crotchet, Crutch, Encroach.]
1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature;
flexure.

Through lanes, and crooks, and
darkness.

Phaer.

2. Any implement having a bent or crooked
end. Especially: (a) The staff used by
a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway
sheep. (b) A bishop's staff of office.
Cf. Pastoral staff.

He left his crook, he left his
flocks.

Prior.

3. A pothook. "As black as the
crook." Sir W. Scott.

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

For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks.

Cranmer.

5. (Mus.) A small tube, usually
curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or
key.

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


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