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   crook , n. [OE. crok; akin to Icel. krōkr hook, bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. Crosier, Crotchet, Crutch, Encroach.]
   A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
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   Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness.
   Phaer.
   
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   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.
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   He left his crook, he left his flocks.
   Prior.
   
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   A pothook. “As black as the crook.” 
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
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   For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks.
   Cranmer.
   
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   (Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
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   A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
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   By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul.
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   Crook , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Crooking.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. krka, Dan. krge. See Crook, n.]
   To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
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   Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
   Shak.
   
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   To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic]
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   There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.
   Ascham.
   
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   What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.
   Bacon.
   
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   Crook, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. “ The port . . . crooketh like a bow.” 
   Phaer.
   
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   Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards.
   Camden.
   
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