[See CROOK a.]

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  † 1.  A crooked back. Obs.

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1508.  [see CROOK a.].

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1709.  Swift, Merlin’s Proph., Bosse, is an old english word for hump-shoulder, or crook-back.

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1710.  Palmer, Proverbs, 98. The deformity of a squint eye, red hair, or a crook-back.

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  2.  One who has a crooked back; a hunchback.

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1494.  Fabyan, Chron., VII. 330. Edmunde, that is of wryters surnamed Crowke backe … was put by … for his deformytye.

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1577.  St. Aug. Manual, 5. Any lame man, any crooke backe.

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1593.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. ii. 96. I Crooke-back, here I stand to answer thee.

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1648.  Gage, West Ind., xii. (1655), 45. Dwarfes, crook-backs or any monstrous persons.

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