1) Abductor 2) Accessary 3) Arsonist 4) Bad lot 5) Bend 6) Blackmailer 7) Bonney 8) Briber 9) Cane 10) Cheat 11) Cheater 12) Chiseler 13) Coconspirator 14) Conspirator 15) Contrabandist 16) Criminal 17) Curvature 18) Curve 19) Desperado 20) Extortioner 21) Extortionist 22) Felon 23) Firebug 24) Gangster
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1) Bad business partner 2) Bend 3) Bend or cause to bend 4) Bend, turn, or curve 5) Can one ever go straight 6) Chiseler 7) Criminal 8) Curved piece 9) Felon 10) Gangster 11) Guilty party 12) He takes things the wrong way 13) Law-breaker 14) Malefactor 15) Nixon denied being one 16) Nixon said he was not one
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[music] A crook, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn (or other brass instrument, such as a natural trumpet) which is used to change the length of the pipe, altering the fundamental pitch and harmonic series which the instrument can sound, and thus the key in which it plays. ==Master crook an...
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see shepherd's crook.
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• (n.) A bishop`s staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff. • (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. • (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. • (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. • (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to...
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A defect in a log caused by being lumbered from a crooked tree.
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in brass musical instruments, detachable piece of metal tubing inserted between the mouthpiece and the main tubing or in the middle of the tubing to ... [2 related articles]
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A lumber defect where there is an edgewise warp effecting the straightness of the board
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Crook transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Crooked (kr??kt);
present participle & verbal noun Crooking .] [ Middle English
croken ; confer Swedish
kr...ka , Danish
kr...ge . See Crook,
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Crook (krok) noun [ Middle English crok ; akin to Icelandic krokr hook, bend, SW. krok , Danish krog , OD. krooke ; or confer Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Confer Crosier , Crotchet , Crutch , Encroach .]
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Crook intransitive verb To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. ' The port . . .
crooketh like a bow.'
Phaer. « Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long,
crooking upwards.
Camden. »
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Ill, badly made, substandard.
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A crook is a small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
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Crook is Australian and New Zealand slang for feeling ill; unpleasant; bad; of poor quality.
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longitudinal bending to one side, caused by uneven seasoning or grain.
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[
n] - a long staff with one end being hook shaped 2. [v] - bend or cause to bend
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Ill, badly made, substandard
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shepherd`s crook noun a long staff with one end being hook shaped
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a tree defect characterized by a sharp bend in the main stem.
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a bent or curved implement, piece, appendage, etc.; hook. · the hooked part of anything. · an instrument or implement having a bent or curved part, as a shepherd's staff hooked at one end or the crosier of a bishop or abbot. · a dishonest person, esp. a sharper, swindler, or thief. · a bend, turn, or curve: a crook in the ro...
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sick, or badly made
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