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Croke

Croke may refer to:

People
  • Croke (surname)
Places
  • Croke Park, Gaelic Athletic Association Stadium in Dublin, Ireland
  • Croke Township, Minnesota, a hamlet in Traverse County, Minnesota, United States
Other
  • Croke, alien race in Star Wars - see List of Star Wars races (A-E)
Croke (surname)

Croke is a surname from Olde Norse meaning 'bent' or 'crooked'.

Usage examples of "croke".

Master Croke went to open the door and let it out and Mary protested and jumped up to catch it and set it on her lap.

Master Croke ordered her to her seat but then started to look for the little cat himself to be sure he had evicted it.

Even Dublin Castle dared not try to publicly justify what had happened in Croke Park.

Henry and Mary would be with him as well as Master Croke, his tutor, who knew of the attack and was no fool.

Master Croke instructed the children about what lands and territories each great power controlled so that Denoriel learned things that were too common knowledge among his courtier friends to be mentioned.

So on his return to London he sought out Acton Croke and had himself examined.

He had sworn Acton Croke to secrecy, and he meant to keep his condition hidden even from his closest intimates--from Hannay and Clanroyden and Lamancha and Palliser-Yeates and Archie Roylance.

There had been no doubts in the minds of Acton Croke and young Ravelston.

One of the Crokes made a woeful wipe at him one time with his caman and I declare to God he was within an aim's ace of getting it at the side of his temple.

If the creeps and the cowards that crucify the crelinion, crip after crip, and who furthermore-and we have proof of thishave crossbowed the cradalious ever since the first crackadoes crusaded in the cause of caliphony, if they think they can cajulate and castigate and get away with it, there will be such a cacophony of cabs, cassanings and crinoleum through the criss and cratch of this country, that the crypto-callistans and the quasi-clapperforms will quiver rather than coopt the crokes.