acrook
adverb
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Pronunciation: /əˈkɹʊk/
adj
Etymology: From a- + crook.
- Bent or formed into a hook.
“1905, Eudorus C. Kenney, “Jack and the Sparrows” in Some More Thusettes, Cortland, NY: The Democrat Printery, p. 7, So Jack of salt a handful took / And slyly watched with neck acrook The sparrows.”
“"Arm acrook, too, a-thinkin’ thet in ther dark all cats is grey."”
- Not in its proper place or properly oriented.
“The whole evening […] lay empty ahead of us. What bliss! There was not a pin acrook in the house, the washing up would be done […]”
adv
Etymology: From a- + crook.
- In an oblique or crooked direction.
“C. Custance. Wife, why cal ye me wife? Sim Sure. Wife? this gear goth acrook.”
“Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke That on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?”