Found 3 items, similar to Rook.
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Definition: rook
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rook
rook
n 1: (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied
squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the
chessboard [syn:
castle]
2: common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of
the American crow [syn:
Corvus frugilegus]
v : deprive of by deceit;
“He swindled me out of my
inheritance”;
“She defrauded the customers who trusted
her”;
“the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change” [syn:
victimize,
swindle,
goldbrick,
nobble,
diddle,
bunco,
defraud,
scam,
mulct,
gyp,
con]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rook
Rook
\Rook\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Rooked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rooking.]
To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
“A band of rooking
officials.” --Milton.
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Rook
\Rook\ (r[oo^]k), n.
Mist; fog. See
Roke. [Obs.]
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Rook
\Rook\, v. i.
To squat; to ruck. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Rook
\Rook\, n. [F. roc (cf. Sp. roque), fr. Per. & Ar. rokh, or
rukh, the rook or castle at chess, also the bird roc (in this
sense perhaps a different word); cf. Hind. rath a war
chariot, the castle at chess, Skr. ratha a car, a war car.
Cf.
Roll.] (Chess)
One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the
board; a castle.
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Rook
\Rook\, n. [AS. hr[=o]c; akin to OHG. hruoh, ruoh, ruoho,
Icel. hr[=o]kr, Sw. roka, Dan. raage; cf. Goth. hrukjan to
crow.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
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The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's
friend. --Pennant.
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2. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
--Wycherley.
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