acrook

In an oblique or crooked direction.

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?

Bent or formed into a hook.

1905, Eudorus C. Kenney, “Jack and the Sparrows” in Some More Thusettes, Cortland, NY: The Democrat Printery, p. 7, So Jack of salt a handful took / And slyly watched with neck acrook The sparrows.

"Arm acrook, too, a-thinkin’ thet in ther dark all cats is grey."

Not in its proper place or properly oriented.

The whole evening […] lay empty ahead of us. What bliss! There was not a pin acrook in the house, the washing up would be done […]