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Definition of Crookery
1. crooked activity [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crookery
Literary usage of Crookery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"In latter years the legitimate drama seems to have been nearly crushed out by
what may be termed BLACK crookery and WHITE FAWN- ERY, consisting of red and ..."
2. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"crookery, plain and painted ; and four lorn», from Kandy and Matur». Coir cordage,
from the Southern Province». С<лг »'Ч- bing and bagging, ..."
3. The Medical Digest, Or Busy Practitioner's Vade-mecum: Being a Means of by Richard Neale (1882)
"179. Hamilton, Bad, Eec. /78, p. 4. Croft, How Make Splints, L. 1/78, p. 819 ;
1/81, p. 990. Newman, J. 2/81, p.893. crookery, Direct., L.2/79, p.185. ..."
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