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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



... Falcon and Tassel-gentle, The Laner and Laneret, The Bockerel and Bockeret, The Saker and Sacaret, The Merlin and Jack Merlin, The Hobby and Jack: There is the Stelletto of Spain, The Blood-red Rook from Turkey, The Waskite from Virginia: And there is of short-winged Hawks, The Eagle and Iron The Goshawk and Tarcel, The Sparhawk and Musket, The French ...
— The Complete Angler • Izaak Walton
... the five cells in the diagonal next above it and the cell in the bottom right-hand corner. The answer for six couples will be the same as the number of ways in which you can place six rooks (not using the cancelled cells) so that no rook shall ever attack another rook. It will be found that the six rooks may be placed in eighty different ways, which ...
— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney
... their hostility, Sir James spared no pains to win their good will. He gave the Terror a rook-rifle and Erebus boxes of chocolate. If he chanced on them when motoring in the afternoon he would carry them off, bicycles and all, in his car and regale them with sumptuous teas at the Grange; and at Colet ...
— The Terrible Twins • Edgar Jepson
... such solemn fowls. They are always in pairs—incurably monogamous; whereas the carrion crow, for reasons of its own, has a fondness for living in trios. This menage a trois may have subtle advantages and seems to be a step in the direction of the truly social habits of the rook; it enables them to fight with more success against their enemies, the hawks, and fosters, likewise, a certain lightheartedness which the sententious raven lacks. No one who has watched the aerial antics of a triplet of carrion crows can deny them ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas
... within the Chief-priest's fair abode They cast aside their trouble's heavy load, Scarce made aweary by the sultry day. The earth no longer laboured; shaded lay The sweet-breathed kine, across the sunny vale, From hill to hill the wandering rook did sail, Lazily croaking, midst his dreams of spring, Nor more awake the pink-foot dove did cling Unto the beech-bough, murmuring now and then; All rested but the restless sons of men And the great sun that wrought this happiness, And all the vale with fruitful hopes did bless. So ...
— The Earthly Paradise - A Poem • William Morris


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