1. (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

2. (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

3. (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.

4. (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

5. (n.) A pothook.

6. (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

7. (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

8. (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.

9. (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

10. (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

11. (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

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