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A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. |
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Any implement having a bent or crooked end. |
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The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to
hold a runaway sheep. |
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A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff. |
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A pothook. |
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An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. |
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A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn,
etc., to change its pitch or key. |
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A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of
thieves, forgers, etc. |
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To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. |
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To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply;
to twist. |
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To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. |
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