shepherd's crook

1. 1.

   a long staff with one end being hook shaped

   Synonymscrook

   Broaderstaff

Questions about shepherd's crook

What does shepherd's crook mean?

shepherd's crook means "a long staff with one end being hook shaped".

What is another word for shepherd's crook?

Close synonyms include crook. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shepherd's crook a common word?

shepherd's crook is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.