Meaning of rook | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rookie.
   slang
2. mist; fog; roke
   uncountable
3. tower
4. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
   countable, uncountable
5. A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
6. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
   countable, uncountable
7. To swindle; cheat: Customers are afraid of being rooked by unscrupulous vendors.
8. A castle or other fortification.
   rare
9. skyscraper (high building)
10. A bad deal; a rip-off.
    countable, uncountable
11. A chess piece that may move in a straight line over any number of empty squares in a rank or file. Also called castle.
    castle
12. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
13. A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
    British, countable, uncountable
14. one of two chess pieces of the same color that may be moved any number of unobstructed squares horizontally or vertically; castle.
15. third-person singular imperative
16. A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
    uncountable
17. A person who cheats:bilk, cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder, sharper, swindler, trickster, victimizer.
18. A parson.
    archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
19. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery:bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, swindle, victimize.
20. A Eurasian corvid (Corvus frugilegus) having black plumage with a patch of bare skin around the base of the bill, and nesting in colonies near the tops of trees.
    (Corvus frugilegus)
21. A swindler or cheat, especially at games.
22. (Animals) a large Eurasian passerine bird, Corvus frugilegus, with a black plumage and a whitish base to its bill: family Corvidae (crows)
    Corvus frugilegus
23. slang a swindler or cheat, esp one who cheats at cards
    slang
24. (tr) slang to overcharge, swindle, or cheat
    tr

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Examples

“But what distinguishes the rook from the crow is the bill; the nostrils, chin, and sides of that and the mouth being in old birds white and bared of feathers, by often thrusting the bill into the ground in search of the erucæ of the Dor-beetle*; the rook then, instead of being proscribed, should be treated as the farmer's friend; as it clears his ground from caterpillars, that do incredible damage by eating the roots of the corn.”

“To-night the winds begin to rise ⁠And roar from yonder dropping day: ⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]”

“So I am (like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming) forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men, whose fancies are so vigorous that they ensure their success in their adventures with Muses, by their strength and imagination.”

“Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge, Rook.”

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