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rook

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: rook

1
 n
common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
2
 v
deprive of by deceit
3
 n
(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: rook
1

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

Synonyms:
Corvus frugilegus
Type of:
corvine bird
birds of the crow family
2

v deprive of by deceit

Synonyms:
bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize
Types:
short, short-change
cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Type of:
cheat, chisel, rip off
deprive somebody of something by deceit
3

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

Synonyms:
castle
Type of:
chess piece, chessman
any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess
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