CROOK

n. thief (Slang); hook; rod with a curved end, shepherd's crook

v. bend, curve; be bent, be curved

Crook can refer to the following: Crooking is a verb to refer to the action of creating a bend or curve; for example, crooking a finger. Hence a crook may be anything that is crooked. Specifically, a crook is a tool with a crook in it, such as a shepherd's staff or prelate's crosier; see also flail and crook.Crook (music), a length of tubing used to change the pitch of a natural horn or other brass instrument; by removing one crook of a given length and replacing it with a crook of another, the entire pitch of the instrument would change. A crook is also the term for a bent or curved pipe that connects the reed to the instrument body on some double reed instruments; in American usage this is generally called a bocal. Musicians who play the natural horn (the predecessor to the modern horn) use crooks to change the instrument into different keys. These are pieces of tubing that are inserted into the horn to change its length.
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Noun
1. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
(synonym) criminal, felon, outlaw, malefactor
(hypernym) wrongdoer, offender
(hyponym) accessory, accessary
2. a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
(synonym) bend, turn
(hypernym) curve, curved shape
(hyponym) bight
(derivation) curve
3. a long staff with one end being hook shaped
(synonym) shepherd's crook
(hypernym) staff
Verb
1. bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"
(synonym) curve
(hypernym) bend, flex
(hyponym) recurve
(derivation) bend, turn

(v. i.)
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
  

(n.)
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
  

(n.)
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
  

(n.)
The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
  

(n.)
Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
  

(n.)
An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
  

(n.)
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
  

(n.)
A pothook.
  

(n.)
A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
  

(n.)
A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
  

(n.)
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
  

Crook, Episcopal Part of the insignia of bishops and abbots in the Roman Catholic Church, said to have been adopted from the augurs of Etruria; usually considered as representing a shepherd's crook, in allusion to Christ as the Good Shepherd and his delegated function as such. But, taken in connection with the archbishop's corzier, which has a cross at the end, it seems likely to be one of the ancient geometrical symbols, perhaps the serpent. Some Egyptian divinities are represented with scepters in the form of a crook or bearing a resemblance to it: it always appears in the hands of Osiris, especially in his aspect of judge of the underworld. The fundamental significance of the crook was of spiritual and intellectual dynamic energy or power usable at the will of its holder or possessor.