Meaning of acrook | Babel Free

Definitions

In an oblique or crooked direction.

archaic, not-comparable

Examples

“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,”

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