Crossword clues for crooking
crooking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crook \Crook\ (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooked (kr??kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crooking.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr?ka, Dan. kr?ge. See Crook, n.]
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To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
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To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic]
There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.
--Ascham.What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.
--Bacon.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is crooked. vb. (en-past of: crook)
Usage examples of "crooking".
Cilla held out her own hand and moved the fingers separately, crooking, then straightening them.
I could see that both of Tam's shook as she held them up before her, staring at her fingers while crooking and relaxing them.
I opened my eyes to look upon only a grayish white line crooking across stone.
Huge eyes stared blankly from under great furry brushes of brows, which were kept apart by a jutting nose crooking forward.
Jarlaxle said heartily as he came back upright, crooking his arm above him so that the hat tucked against his elbow.
By crooking the appropriate finger every now and then, Thelma became privy to it as it unfolded.
She remembered that she could do this just as easily by crooking her finger.
Soothing my lips all about, I slyly observed the relaxing of her shoulders and a shy hiding of her face which she effected by crooking up one arm and burying her head in the fold of her elbow.
At a crooking of a finger, I turned Mr de Vere Lacey about and led him slowly to her.
It carried a bastard sword in one hand and was already crooking the fingers of the other into cabalistic signs.
Vascay said, crooking his finger for the wine again, "and even if you're not—"
Atop his stump, Tavarre shook his head, his mouth crooking into a wry, wondering grin.