Available Definitions:
1) n. - A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
2) n. - Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
3) n. - The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
4) n. - A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
5) n. - A pothook.
6) n. - An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
7) n. - A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
8) n. - A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
9) n. - To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
10) n. - To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
11) v. i. - To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.