crook-backed, a.
(ˈkrʊkbækt)
[f. prec. + -ed.]
Having a crooked back: hunchbacked.
| 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes C ij a, The said ypocras was of littel stature, grete heded, croke backed. 1513 More in Grafton Chron. II. 758 Richard the thirde sonne..was..crooke backed, his left shoulder much higher then his right. 1611 Bible Lev. xxi. 20 Or crooke-backt or a dwarfe. 1826 Milman A. Boleyn, Landing at Tower, Those poor babes, their crook-back'd uncle murder'd. |