Definition of Crook

The distortion of a board in which there is a deviation, in a direction perpendicular to the edge, from a straight line from end to end of the piece.

(v. i.)
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
  

(n.)
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
  

(n.)
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
  

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

(n.)
Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
  

(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 pothook.
  

(n.)
A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
  

(n.)
A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
  

(n.)
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
  

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crook
\crook\, v. i. to bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " the port crooketh like a bow." their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. amden.
crook
\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.
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.
3. a pothook. "as black as the crook." w. scott.
4. an artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. for all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. ranmer.
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. [cant, u.s.]

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 by hook or by crook 
 throw-crook 

Meaning
By any means possible.
Origin
Possibly from a custom in mediaeval England that allowed peasants to take any deadwood from the royal forest that they could reach with a shepherd's crook or a reaper's billhook. Another possible explanation comes Cromwell's attempt to take the city of Waterford. He is reported as saying he would take the city 'by hook or by crook'. Hook is the headland on the Wexford side and Crook is the name of the Waterford side.

Bagl = n. a crook, a crutch

Baglan = n. a crook, a hook

Bugeilffon = n. a shepherd's crook

Crwbach = n. a hook, a crook

1. dishonest person; 2. criminal; thief or swindler; 3. not good, sick: "feel crook"; 4. bad: "crook weather"; 5. not functioning; 6. difficult: "crook job"; 7. angry: “Don't go crook on him”

(very) sick, unwell

feeling extremely unwell

1. feeling extremely unwell; 2. very crooked; not straight

feeling extremely unwell

 

very crooked; not straight

feeling extremely unwell

be upset with; be angry with

not feel well

become angry

assertively express one’s anger, upbraid noisily

assertively express one’s anger, upbraid noisily

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Noun
1. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
(synonym) criminal, felon, outlaw, malefactor
(hypernym) wrongdoer, offender
(hyponym) accessory, accessary
2. a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
(synonym) bend, turn
(hypernym) curve, curved shape
(hyponym) bight
(derivation) curve
3. a long staff with one end being hook shaped
(synonym) shepherd's crook
(hypernym) staff

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Verb
1. bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"
(synonym) curve
(hypernym) bend, flex
(hyponym) recurve
(derivation) bend, turn

County:  County Durham
Post Code: DL15

State: COLORADO
City: CROOK

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Crook, Episcopal Part of the insignia of bishops and abbots in the Roman Catholic Church, said to have been adopted from the augurs of Etruria; usually considered as representing a shepherd's crook, in allusion to Christ as the Good Shepherd and his delegated function as such. But, taken in connection with the archbishop's corzier, which has a cross at the end, it seems likely to be one of the ancient geometrical symbols, perhaps the serpent. Some Egyptian divinities are represented with scepters in the form of a crook or bearing a resemblance to it: it always appears in the hands of Osiris, especially in his aspect of judge of the underworld. The fundamental significance of the crook was of spiritual and intellectual dynamic energy or power usable at the will of its holder or possessor.