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crooketh

crooketh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crook.

Meaning of crook

Verb

crook (third-person singular simple present crooks, present participle crooking, simple past and past participle crooked)

  1. (transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
    • He crooked his finger toward me.
  2. (intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
  3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
    • For the foundation of youthe well ſet (as Plato doth ſaye) the whole bodye of the common wealthe ſhall flouriſhe thereafter. If the younge tree growe croked, when it is oulde, a man ſhall rather breake it than ſtreight it. And I thincke there is no one thinge that crokes youthe more then ſuch...1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […]...

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Origin of crooketh

crook + -eth

Questions about crooketh

What is crooketh the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Crooketh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crook.

Words near crooketh in the dictionary

  1. Crookes-Hittorf tube
  2. Crookes-Hittorf tubes
  3. Crookesian
  4. crookesite
  5. crookest
  6. crooketh
  7. crookfingered
  8. crookheaded
  9. crookie
  10. crookies
  11. crooking

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