CROOK

Crook

A crook, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn 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.

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crook

Noun

  1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
    She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
  2. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
  3. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
    the crook of a cane
  4. A lock or curl of hair.
  5. A gibbet.
  6. A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
  7. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
  8. A bishop's staff of office.
  9. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
  10. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
  11. A pothook.
  12. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

Verb

  1. To bend.
    He crooked his finger toward me.
  2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Adjective

  1. Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
    That work you did on my car is crook, mate
    Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
    Things are crook at Tallarook.
  2. Ill, sick.
    I′m feeling a bit crook.
  3. Annoyed, angry; upset.
    be crook at/about; go crook at


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