1. Noun
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
2. Noun
Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
3. Noun
The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
4. Noun
A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
5. Noun
A pothook.
6. Noun
An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
7. Noun
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
8. Noun
A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
9. Noun
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
10. Noun
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
11. Verb
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
12. Noun
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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