THE AMUSING THINGS WE SAY
-Bl HOOK OK CROOK" In medieval limes, the poor people living on English and Irish manors were allowed by law to cut for fuel, ail dead branches from a tree bv ■leans of a bill hook, and to pull down With a crook those limbs which were •hove their reach. From this ancient !<“'■ amp the phrase “By hnok or crook,” meaning to get something by one means or another.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 292, 11 December 1941, Page 4
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