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rook
/ɹʊk/
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What does rook mean?
noun
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
More meanings (10)
noun
- A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (slang) A rookie.
- mist; fog; roke
- (archaic, slang) A parson.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
verb
- To cheat or swindle.
- Pronunciation spelling of look, mimicking Asian speech.
- (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹʊk/
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She wanted to tell Colin about Dickon’s fox cub and the rook and about what the springtime had been doing.
It is social in its habits, and builds its nest, like the English rook, on trees in the neighbourhood of habitations.
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Nice gradations of skill were observed among them, and thirteen degrees of odds are enumerated among them down to the rook.
White on the move, although his forces are much inferior, can draw the game by checking with the Rook on f3.
Calls a house a rookery when there’s not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!’