[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crook \crook\ kroo^k, n. oe. crok; akin to icel. kr=okr
   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.
      1913 webster

            through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. --phaer.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

                he left his crook, he left his flocks. --prior.
          1913 webster

   3. a pothook. "as black as the crook." --sir w. scott.
      1913 webster

   4. an artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
      1913 webster

            for all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. --cranmer.
      1913 webster

   5. mus. a small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet,
      horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
      1913 webster

   6. a person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of
      thieves, forgers, etc. cant, u.s.
      1913 webster

   by hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or
      foul.
      1913 webster
see also:
crosier crotchet crutch encroach pastoral staff by hook or by crook 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

            crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to
      misapply; to twist. archaic
      1913 webster

            there is no one thing that crooks youth more than
            such unlawfull games.                 --ascham.
      1913 webster

            what soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he
            crooketh them to his own ends.        --bacon.
      1913 webster
see also:
crooked crooking 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crook \crook\, v. i.
   to bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " the port .
   . . crooketh like a bow." --phaer.
   1913 webster

         their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more
         than a finger long, crooking upwards.    --camden.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

crook
     n 1: someone who has committed or been legally convicted of a
          crime syn: criminal, felon, outlaw, malefactor
     2: a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a
        crook in the path" syn: bend, turn
     3: a long staff with one end being hook shaped syn: shepherd's
        crook
     v : bend or cause to bend; "he crooked his index finger"; "the
         road curved sharply" syn: curve
see also:
criminal felon outlaw malefactor bend turn 
shepherd's crook curve 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

359 moby thesaurus words for "crook":
   judas, l, malacca cane, aberrancy, aberration, advocate,
   alpenstock, andiron, angle, angle off, apex, appropriate, arc,
   arch, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing, bad person,
   bandeau, baton, bear off, bearer, beat, bend, bend back, bent,
   betrayer, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, bilk, blackleg,
   body snatcher, booster, bow, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, branch,
   branching off, brassiere, buckle, buttress, caduceus, cane, cant,
   carrier, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, cervix, chain,
   chain of office, cheat, cheater, chevron, chicken thief, chisel,
   chiseler, chouse, circle, circuitousness, clout, coal tongs, coin,
   con man, conchoid, contort, convict, coon, cop, corner, corset,
   cozen, cozener, crane, crank, criminal, crosier, cross,
   cross-staff, crotchet, crumple, crutch, crutch-stick, curl, curve,
   damper, deceiver, declination, decurve, deflect, deflection,
   defraud, defrauder, delinquent, den of thieves, departure,
   desperado, desperate criminal, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate,
   deviation, deviousness, diacaustic, diddle, diddler, diffract,
   diffuse, digression, discursion, disperse, distort, divagate,
   divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert,
   do, dogleg, dome, double, double-dealer, drift, drifting, elbow,
   ell, ellipse, embezzler, embow, errantry, evildoer, excursion,
   excursus, exorbitation, fasces, felon, festoon, filch, filcher,
   fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, flex, flimflam man, flimflammer,
   fork, foundation garment, fugitive, fulcrum, furcate, furcation,
   gallows bird, ganef, gangster, gaolbird, gavel, ghoul, girdle,
   grafter, grate, grating, grave robber, grid, griddle, gridiron,
   grill, griller, guy, guywire, gyp artist, gypper, hairpin,
   handstaff, heist, hook, hump, hunch, hyperbola, incurvate, incurve,
   indirection, inflect, inflection, jailbird, jewel thief, jock,
   jockstrap, juggler, keys, knee, knot, land pirate, land shark,
   land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lawbreaker, lifter, lituus,
   loop, lurch, mace, mainstay, maintainer, malefactor, malevolent,
   malfeasant, malfeasor, mantle, mast, misfeasor, miter, mobster,
   nab, neck, nook, oblique, obliquity, outlaw, pallium, parabola,
   pastoral staff, paterissa, peculator, pererration, petty thief,
   pilferer, pinch, poacher, point, poker, portfolio, pothook, prop,
   prowler, public enemy, pull, purloiner, quarterstaff, quisling,
   quoin, racketeer, rambling, recurve, red hat, reflect, reflex,
   refract, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place,
   retroflex, rigging, ring, robber, rod, rod of office, round, sag,
   salamander, scatter, scepter, scofflaw, screw, scrounger, sheer,
   shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shillelagh,
   shoplifter, shoulder, shroud, sinner, sinus, skew, slant, slue,
   sneak thief, spine, spit, spring, sprit, staff, standing rigging,
   stave, stay, steal, stealer, stick, stiffener, straying,
   strengthener, support, supporter, sustainer, swag, swagger stick,
   swanking stick, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swindle, swindler,
   swinging, tack, thief, thug, tiara, tongs, tracery, traitor,
   transgressor, triple crown, tripod, trivet, truncheon, turn,
   turn awry, turning, turnspit, twist, two-timer, upholder,
   variation, vault, veer, vertex, villain, walking stick, wand,
   wand of office, wandering, warp, white-collar thief, wind,
   worker of ill, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, wrongdoer, yaw, zag,
   zig, zigzag

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

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 codes: 80726

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

crook -- u.s. county in oregon
   population 2000:    19182
   housing units 2000: 8264
   land area 2000:     2979.381699 sq. miles 7716.562847 sq. km
   water area 2000:    8.032038 sq. miles 20.802882 sq. km
   total area 2000:    2987.413737 sq. miles 7737.365729 sq. km
   located within:       oregon or, fips 41
   location:             44.212739 n, 120.534152 w
   headwords:
    crook
    crook, or
    crook county
    crook county, or

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

crook -- u.s. county in wyoming
   population 2000:    5887
   housing units 2000: 2935
   land area 2000:     2858.590994 sq. miles 7403.716371 sq. km
   water area 2000:    11.926740 sq. miles 30.890113 sq. km
   total area 2000:    2870.517734 sq. miles 7434.606484 sq. km
   located within:       wyoming wy, fips 56
   location:             44.561657 n, 104.638851 w
   headwords:
    crook
    crook, wy
    crook county
    crook county, wy

[9] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

crook, co -- u.s. town in colorado
   population 2000:    128
   housing units 2000: 80
   land area 2000:     0.129100 sq. miles 0.334367 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.129100 sq. miles 0.334367 sq. km
   fips code:            18640
   located within:       colorado co, fips 08
   location:             40.858586 n, 102.801195 w
   zip codes 1990:     80726
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    crook, co
    crook

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