Any bend, turn or curve; or a bent or curving instrument. We speak of a crook in a stick of timber, or in a river; and any hook is a crook.

A shepherd staff, curving at the end; a pastoral staff. When used by a bishop or abbot, it is called a crosier. He left his crook, he left his flocks.

A gibbet.

An artifice; a trick.

To bend; to turn from a straight line; to make a curve or hook.

To turn from rectitude; to pervert.

To thwart.

To bend or be bent; to be turned from a right line; to curve; to wind.