Significado (Inglés)
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- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
- (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.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A pothook.
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
Sinónimos
shepherd’s crook
yield
make crooked
strong-armer
hooked stick
shepherd’s staff
flexture
cross-head
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/kɹʊk/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
In summary
From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *crōc (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-West Germanic *krōk, from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”). Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”).
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