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