Crossword clues for crookback
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crookback \Crook"back`\ (kr[oo^]k"b[a^]k`), n. A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
Crookback \Crook"back`\, a.
Hunched.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. A crooked back, or a person with such a back; a hunchback.
WordNet
adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column [syn: crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchback, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic]
Usage examples of "crookback".
Somehow, Ryan had guessed that it would be the slightly built Odo Crookback who would stand against them.
Stef shivered, and hoped they'd be stopping soonthen they rounded a curve in the trail and Crookback Pass stretched out before them.
Richard, a whoreson crookback, misbegotten, makes love to a widowed Ann (what's in a name?
But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed a colour to, so as to put him in thought of that missing link of creation's chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.
Stef shivered, and hoped they'd be stopping soon - then they rounded a curve in the trail and Crookback Pass stretched out before them.
The interior of the square was a maze of stalls and crookback aisles, shaded by awnings of woven grass.
More serious-minded revelers (and the maudlin drunks) gathered about a crookbacked goblin bard who had reached the one-hundred-sixty-fifth verse of a lugubrious ballad of doomed Firvulag lovers.
But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
You get you a crookback and maybe twenty bags of charcoal for all that heat and dirt and donkeywork, and twenty bags ain't going to buy a living.