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Rook   /rʊk/   Listen
noun
Roke  n.  
1.
Mist; smoke; damp (Prov. Eng.) (Written also roak, rook, and rouk)
2.
A vein of ore. (Pov.Eng.)


Rook  n.  Mist; fog. See Roke. (Obs.)


Rook  n.  (Chess) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.


Rook  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species. "The rook... should be treated as the farmer's friend."
2.
A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.


verb
Rook  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. rooked; pres. part. rooking)  To cheat; to defraud by cheating. "A band of rooking officials."


Rook  v. i.  To squat; to ruck. (Obs.)





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"Rook" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the education of "Izunsabe," which he took upon himself, a course of elemental doctrine in the one true game. And the boy fought his way up at such a pace that he jumped from odds of queen and rook to pawn and two moves in less than two years. And now he could almost give odds to his tutor, though he never presumed to offer them; and trading as he did with enlightened merchants of large Continental sea-ports, who had plenty of time on ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... go to a rook's nest?" said a gentleman to a boy of seven years old; he looked very grave, and having pondered upon the question for some minutes, answered, "I do not know what you mean by the word go." Fortunately for the boy, the gentleman who asked the question, was not a captious querist; he perceived ...
— Practical Education, Volume I • Maria Edgeworth
... though," muttered Harry to himself. "I don't believe this rook holds gold enough to put a yellow plating ...
— The Young Engineers in Nevada • H. Irving Hancock
... altogether cleanly in their habits, the ladies of the family grew weary of them and wished to remove them. Accordingly, the colony was driven away, and made their present settlement in a grove behind the house. Ever since that time not a rook has built in the ancient grove; every year, however, one or another pair of young rooks attempt to build among the deserted tree-tops, but the old rooks tear the new nest to pieces as often as it is put together. Thus, either ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... Wardle took Winkle rook-shooting. The pair set out with their guns, preceded by the fat boy and followed by Mr. Pickwick, Snodgrass and the corpulent Tupman. Winkle, who disliked to admit his ignorance of guns, showed it in a painful way. His first shot ...
— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives


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