Crook : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Crook	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Crook
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crook n someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime Synonym(s): criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" Synonym(s): bend, crook, twist, turn a long staff with one end being hook shaped Synonym(s): crook, shepherd's crook v bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply" Synonym(s): crook, curve
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --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. [bd]As black as the crook.[b8] --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. [Cant, U.S.] {By hook or by crook}, in some way or other; by fair means or foul.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crook \Crook\ (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crooked} (kr??kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crooking}.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr[?]ka, Dan. kr[?]ge. See Crook, n.] 1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak. 2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. --Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crook \Crook\, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. [bd] The port . . . crooketh like a bow.[b8] --Phaer. Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. --Camden.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Crook, CO (town, FIPS 18640) Location: 40.85833 N, 102.80108 W Population (1990): 148 (71 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 80726