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n. An Old World bird (Corvus frugilegus) that resembles the North American crow and nests in colonies near the tops of trees.

n. A swindler or cheat, especially at games.

v. To swindle; cheat: Customers are afraid of being rooked by unscrupulous vendors.

n. A chess piece that may move in a straight line over any number of empty squares in a rank or file. Also called castle.

n. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.

n. A swindler; someone who betrays.

n. a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.

v. To cheat or swindle.

n. A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.

n. A castle or other fortification.

n. An Amish card game.

n. A rookie.

n. Mist; fog. See roke.

verb-intransitive. To squat; to ruck.

n. One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.

n. 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.

n. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.

v. To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

n. A kind of crow, Corvus frugilegus, abundant in Europe.

n. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida.

n. A cheat; a trickster or swindler; one who practises the “plucking of pigeons.” See pigeon, 2.

n. A simpleton; a gull; one liable to be cheated.

n.

To caw or croak as a crow or raven.

To cheat; defraud.

To cheat; defraud by cheating.

n. In chess, one of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.

Same as ruck.

v. deprive of by deceit

n. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

n. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

"The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot."

rooked    rooking    rooks   

corvine bird    chessman    chess piece    bird    firecracker   

to double rooks    squab   

roke   

rooked    rooking   

mist    squat    ruck    castle    cheat    sharper    sway    swindler    con    have   

Brook    Brooke    Chinook    Cook    Cooke    Crook    Hooke    Kirkuk    book    brook   

magpie    jackdaw    pawn    buzzard    jackal    jay    cuckoo    sparrow    pvp    thigh bone