"acrook" meaning in English

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          "roman": "Sim Sure. Wife? this gear goth acrook.",
          "text": "C. Custance. Wife, why cal ye me wife?",
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          "ref": "1625, “The Pillars, or fourth Booke of Noe”, in William L’Isle, transl., Part of Du Barts English and French, London: John Haviland, page 158",
          "text": "Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke\nThat on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?",
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          "ref": "1881, Christina Rossetti, “Behold the Man!”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 177",
          "text": "[…] our spirits immersed / In wilfulness, our steps run all acrook.",
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          "ref": "1905, Albert G. Latham, transl., Goethe’s Faust, London: J.M. Dent, published 1908, Part 1, p. 25",
          "text": "And night ten years, o’er rough and smooth,\nAnd up and down, and acrook and across,\nI lead my pupils by the nose,",
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        "In an oblique or crooked direction."
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        "(archaic) In an oblique or crooked direction."
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          "word": "askew"
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          "word": "awry"
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          "word": "crookedly"
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          "word": "obliquely"
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      "ipa": "/əˈkɹʊk/"
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  "word": "acrook"
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          "text": "Arm acrook, too, a-thinkin’ thet in ther dark all cats is grey.",
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          "text": "His knees were acrook and his feet lifted on their toes as if they were ready for flight.",
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        "Bent or formed into a hook."
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        "(of a body part) Bent or formed into a hook."
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        "Not in its proper place or properly oriented."
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        "(uncommon) Not in its proper place or properly oriented."
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          "text": "Loe, is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke\nThat on this azure ground glydes (as it were) acrooke?",
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        "(archaic) In an oblique or crooked direction."
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        "(uncommon) Not in its proper place or properly oriented."
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