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A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals. Gambrel roof (Arch.), a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg. [Colloq.]

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. [Scot.] Strutt.

A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.

Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

A crooked back; a humped back. Tatler.

To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." [Obs.] Fuller.

To bar in; to secure. [Obs.] To imbar their crooked titles. Shak.

Curved; bent; crooked. Derham.

To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

s; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal. By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met this crown. Shak.

The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect. J. Philips.

To mark or imprint with lines. A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow. Marlowe.

Crooked; awry. [Obs.] "This is clean kam." Shak.

Crooked; arched; bent. [Written also kimbow.] Dryden.

Knotty; gnarled. The knarred and crooked cedar knees. Longfellow.

-- To make away. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. Burton.

A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore.