Meaning

(archaic) In an oblique or crooked direction..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) In an oblique or crooked direction.
2. (of a body part) Bent or formed into a hook.
3. (uncommon) Not in its proper place or properly oriented.

Example Sentences

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?

[…] our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook.

And night ten years, o’er rough and smooth, And up and down, and acrook and across, I lead my pupils by the nose,

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."

His knees were acrook and his feet lifted on their toes as if they were ready for flight.

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 […]

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Use acrook when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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