A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
A shepherd's crook; a specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *crōc, from Proto-West Germanic *krōk, from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz ("bend, hook"), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- ("tracery, basket, bend").
Cognate with Dutch kreuk ("a bend, fold, wrinkle"), Middle Low German kroke, krake, Danish krog ("crook, hook"), Swedish krok ("crook, hook"), Icelandic krókur ("hook").