For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks.
Cranmer.
5. (Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul.
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.] 1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
Shak.
2. 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.
Crook, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " The port . . . crooketh like a bow." Phaer.
Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards.
Camden.
Crook"back` (kr&oocr;k"băk`), n. A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
Crook"back`, a. Hunched. Shak.
Crook"bill` ( -b?l`), n. (Zo÷l) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
Crook"ed (kr??k"?d), a. 1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke.
he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.
Shak.