The name was taken from the crooked walking sticks used in Ireland.

Walter Slovotsky was standing a few feet away from him, dropping a crooked stick to the ground.

They pointed long, crooked sticks at him and he knew they were about to fire.

Then one of them threw his crooked stick and cut off the head of another right before our eyes.

People passed laborers of the morning, an old man with a crooked stick.

He picked up a long, crooked stick and waved it in my face.

He seemed to be guiding the horse with taps from a crooked stick.

But Barbara went through the woods and picked up the crooked stick after all.

The old man was holding himself up with the help of a long crooked stick.

Nearby, a small black boy was trying to balance a crooked stick on the ends of his fingers.