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noun
obsolete a crooked back
obsolete hunchback
The first known use of crookback was in 1508
1 But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.
2 Though I was born crookbacked, crippled, and fell, I will be cured at Saint Winifred’s well.
3 The crookbacked king comes to a bad end at last; he meets with the just retribution for his many misdeeds; and he falls before the sword of Richmond.
4 Mr. Cooper conceives that crookbacked usurper with sufficient accuracy, reads it with tolerable correctness, and acts it with great spirit.
5 Let the meanest crookbacked Thersites teach the supremest Agamemnon that he actually does not reverence him, the supremest Agamemnon's eyes flash fire responsive; a real pain and partial insanity has seized Agamemnon.
6 Let the meanest crookbacked Thersites teach the supremest Agamemnon that he actually does not reverence him, the supremest Agamemnon's eyes flash fire responsive; a real pain, and partial insanity, has seized Agamemnon.