Crook vs. Knee

Crooknoun

A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

‘She held the baby in the crook of her arm.’;

Kneenoun

In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.

‘Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.’;

Crooknoun

A bending of the knee; a genuflection.

Kneenoun

In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.

Crooknoun

A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

‘the crook of a cane’;

Kneenoun

The part of a garment that covers the knee.

Crooknoun

(obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.

Kneenoun

(shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

Crooknoun

(obsolete) A gibbet.

Kneenoun

An act of kneeling on one knee, typically to acknowledge an injury, sacrifice or otherwise to show respect.

Crooknoun

(obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.

Kneenoun

(archaic) An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.

‘To make a knee.’;

Crooknoun

A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.

Kneenoun

Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.

‘the knee of a graph’;

Crooknoun

A bishop's staff of office.

Kneenoun

A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.

Crooknoun

An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.

Kneeverb

To kneel to.

Crooknoun

A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.

Kneeverb

(transitive) To poke or strike with the knee.

Crooknoun

A pothook.

Kneeverb

(reflexive) To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.

Crooknoun

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

Kneenoun

In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.

Crookverb

(transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.

‘He crooked his finger toward me.’;

Kneenoun

The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg.

Crookverb

(intransitive) To become bent or hooked.

Kneenoun

A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

Crookverb

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Kneenoun

A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy.

‘Give them title, knee, and approbation.’;

Crookadjective

Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.

‘That work you did on my car is crook, mate’; ‘Not turning up for training was pretty crook.’; ‘Things are crook at Tallarook.’;

Kneeverb

To supplicate by kneeling.

‘Fall down, and kneeThe way into his mercy.’;

Crookadjective

Ill, sick.

‘I′m feeling a bit crook.’;

Kneenoun

hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella

Crookadjective

Annoyed, angry; upset.

‘be crook at/about; go crook at’;

Kneenoun

joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

Crooknoun

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

‘Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness.’;

Kneenoun

cloth covering consisting of the part of a trouser leg that covers the knee

Crooknoun

Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

‘He left his crook, he left his flocks.’;

Knee

In humans and other primates, the knee joins the thigh with the leg and consists of two joints: one between the femur and tibia (tibiofemoral joint), and one between the femur and patella (patellofemoral joint). It is the largest joint in the human body.

Crooknoun

A pothook.

Crooknoun

An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

‘For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks.’;

Crooknoun

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

Crooknoun

A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.

Crookverb

To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

‘Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.’;

Crookverb

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

‘There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.’; ‘What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.’;

Crookverb

To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

‘Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards.’;

Crooknoun

someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

Crooknoun

a circular segment of a curve;

‘a bend in the road’; ‘a crook in the path’;

Crooknoun

a long staff with one end being hook shaped

Crookverb

bend or cause to bend;

‘He crooked his index finger’; ‘the road curved sharply’;