crooken

English

Etymology

From crook +‎ -en.

Verb

crooken (third-person singular simple present crookens, present participle crookening, simple past and past participle crookened)

1. (archaic, transitive) To make crooked.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crooken”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

Verb

crooken

1. Alternative form of croken

Yola

Noun

crooken

1. Alternative form of crookeen

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32