1. an implement or tool, such as a bishop's crosier or a shepherd's staff, with a bent or curved part.
2. A part that is curved or bent like a hook.
3. A curve or bend; a turn: a crook in the path.
4. informal one who makes a living by dishonest methods.
5. to make a crook in; bend.
6. to bend or curve. see synonyms at bend1.
7. australian out of order; faulty.
8. australian not well; ill.
9. australian of poor quality; inferior.
10. australian not honest; crooked.

1. bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
2. ill, sick.
3. annoyed, angry; upset.
4. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
5. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
6. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
7. A lock or curl of hair.
8. A gibbet.
9. A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
10. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
11. an artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
12. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
13. to bend.

1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
2. any implement having a bent or crooked end.
3. the staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
4. A bishop's staff of office. cf. pastoral staff.
5. A pothook.
6. an artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
7. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
8. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
9. to bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
10. to turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
11. to turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

1. to bend; cause to assume an angular or a curved form; make a curve or hook in.
2. to curl (hair). Ayenbite of inwit, p. 176.
3. to turn; pervert; misapply.
4. to thwart.
5. to bend or be bent; be turned from a right line; curve; wind.
6. specifically to bend the knee; crouch.
7. any bend, turn, or curve; a curvature; a flexure: as, a crook in a river or in a piece of timber.
8. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
9. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion of anything: as, the crook of a cane or of an umbrella-handle.
10. an instrument or implement having a crook, or distinguished by its curved form.
11. the pastoral staff of a bishop or an abbot, fashioned in the form of a shepherd's staff, as a symbol of his sway over and care for his flock. such staves are generally gilt, ornamented with jewels, and enriched by carving, etc. compare pastoral staff, under staff.
12. A hook hung in an open chimney to support a pot or kettle; a pot-hook or trammel.
13. in music: A short tube, either curved or straight, that may be inserted into various metal wind-instruments so as to lengthen their tube, and thus lower their fundamental tone or key. the curved metal tube between the mouthpiece and the body of a bassoon.
14. A sickle.
15. A lock or curl of hair. compare crocket.
16. A gibbet.
17. A support consisting of a post or pile with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
18. an artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
19. A dishonest person; one who is crooked in conduct; a tricky or underhand schemer; a thief; a swindley.
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21. A name given to both the parenthesis ( ) and the square bracket [].

1. a circular segment of a curve
2. a long staff with one end being hook shaped
3. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
4. bend or cause to bend