Word Meaning

Meaning of "crook" and the crossword clue

- Shepherd’s staff
- A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
- Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
- The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
- A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
- To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.