a. [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, 109. Those poor babes, their crook-back’d uncle murder’d.
