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