v. t.
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. Shak. [ 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 ]
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 ]
n. [ OE. crok; akin to Icel. krōkr hook, bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. Crosier, Crotchet, Crutch, Encroach. ]
Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. Phaer. [ 1913 Webster ]
He left his crook, he left his flocks. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. Cranmer. [ 1913 Webster ]
By hook or by crook,
n. A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Hunched. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deut. xxxii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]
Crooked whisky,
adv. In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To make crooked. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]