CROOK

noun a pothook.

2. crook ·noun any implement having a bent or crooked end.

3. crook ·noun a bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

4. crook ·noun an artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

5. crook ·noun a bishop's staff of office. ·cf. pastoral staff.

6. crook ·noun a person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, ·etc.

7. crook ·noun the staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.

8. crook ·noun a small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, ·etc., to change its pitch or key.

9. crook ·noun to turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

10. crook ·vi to bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

11. crook ·noun to turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.