Crook

(noun.) a long staff with one end being hook shaped.

(verb.) bend or cause to bend; 'He crooked his index finger'; 'the road curved sharply'.

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• Here is his reply: 'The most dangerous crook in Chicago. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I was in the service of a farmer; and with crook in hand, my dog at my side, I shepherded a numerous flock on the near uplands. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They live by the crook and the bow; half shepherds, half hunters, their flocks wander wild as their prey. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• After the battle he formed a junction at Staunton with Averell and Crook, who had come up from the Kanawha, or Gauley River. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• With my pastoral crook I went over the brook, And behold I am spread into bands! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In most things he'll get it by hook or by crook, but--hang it all! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Finding that he was not pursued he turned back to Winchester, where Crook was stationed with a small force, and drove him out. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A wooden peg, a foot and a half high, with two slight crooks or curves in one side of it and one in the other, projects above the starboard gunwale. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The streets generally are four or five to eight feet wide and as crooked as a corkscrew. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I am inclined to think that the percentage of crooked people was smaller when I was young. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• No, because I shall hae the crooked sixpence. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I afterward found that he had been previously mixed up with a somewhat similar crooked job in connection with telephone patents. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Ah, bah, old intriguer, crooked little puppet! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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