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acrook

/əˈkɹʊk/

acrook adverb: in an oblique or crooked direction.

Adverb

acrook (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) In an oblique or crooked direction.
    • C. Custance. Wife, why cal ye me wife?
      Sim Sure. Wife? this gear goth acrook.c. 1553, Nicholas Udall, edited by Edward Arber, Roister Doister, Birmingham, published 1869, Act IV, Scene 3, p. 62
    • Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke
      That on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?1625, “The Pillars, or fourth Booke of Noe”, in William L’Isle, transl., Part of Du Barts English and French, London: John Haviland, page 158

Adjective

acrook (not comparable)

  1. Bent or formed into a hook.
    • So Jack of salt a handful took /
      And slyly watched with neck acrook
      The sparrows.1905, Eudorus C. Kenney, “Jack and the Sparrows” in Some More Thusettes, Cortland, NY: The Democrat Printery, p. 7
    • "Arm acrook, too, a-thinkin’ thet in ther dark all cats is grey."1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 198
    Synonyms:
    bent, crooked
  2. (uncommon) Not in its proper place or properly oriented.
    • The whole evening […] lay empty ahead of us. What bliss! There was not a pin acrook in the house, the washing up would be done […]1994, Jean Brown, chapter 26, in We’ll See the Cuckoo, Lancaster: Palatine Books, published 2004, page 519
    Synonyms:
    askew

acrook meaning in Urdu

acrook in Urdu

جھکا ہوا, مڑا ہوا, خم دار, ٹیڑھا بنگا

Examples of acrook in a sentence

  • […] our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook.1881, Christina Rossetti, “Behold the Man!”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 177:
  • His knees were acrook and his feet lifted on their toes as if they were ready for flight.1954, Eilís Dillon, chapter 3, in The San Sebastian, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, page 57:

Synonyms of acrook

Origin of acrook

From a- + crook.

Questions about acrook

What does acrook mean?
Acrook means in an oblique or crooked direction.
What is acrook in Urdu?
Acrook in Urdu is جھکا ہوا, مڑا ہوا, خم دار. See Acrook meaning in Urdu.
How do you use acrook in a sentence?
[…] our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook.
What part of speech is acrook?
Acrook can be an adverb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce acrook?
Acrook is pronounced /əˈkɹʊk/.

Words near acrook in the dictionary

  1. acronymous
  2. acronymously
  3. acronymphomania
  4. acronyms
  5. acronymy
  6. acrook
  7. acroosteolysis
  8. acropachy
  9. acropachyderma
  10. acroparaesthesia
  11. acroparaesthesias

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