A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
A pothook.
A bishop's standard staff of office.
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
Ill, sick.
Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
Annoyed, angry; upset.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
To become bent or hooked.
To bend, or form into a hook.
A crosswise cut.
A shortcut.
A crosscut saw.
A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
An instance of filmic crosscutting.
To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
To cut across something.
To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.