Meaning of Roost | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
2. A group of birds roosting together.
3. A bedroom.
4. The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
   Scotland
5. A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
6. Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).

Equivalents

Examples

“He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.”

“Sometimes the whole tract swung to one side, like⟳ the tail of a live⟳ serpent; sometimes, for a glimpse, it would all disappear⟳ and then boil up again. What it was I had no guess⟳, which for the time increased my fear of it; but I now know⟳ it must have⟳ been the roost or tide race⟳, which had carried me away so fast and tumbled me about so cruelly, and at last⟳, as if tired of that play⟳, had flung out me and the spare⟳ yard upon its landward margin.”

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