rook
Other forms: rooks; rooked; rooking
A rook is a crow-like black bird that lives in northern Europe. To rook someone is to trick them, like a sneaky old crow. And in chess, the rook is the piece that looks like a tower or a castle.
You can tell the difference between a rook and a crow, which are both members of the bird family Corvus, by the pale skin around a rook's bill in front of its eyes and the shaggy feathers around its legs. Urban rooks, like their crow cousins, prefer areas near human activity where they can scavenge food — although they also eat earthworms and insects. You're most likely to see rooks in northern Europe, Iceland, and parts of Scandinavia (or on a chess board :) .
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common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
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synonyms:
Corvus frugilegus
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type of:
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corvine bird
birds of the crow family
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corvine bird
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(offensive) deprive of by deceit
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synonyms:
bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize
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types:
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short, short-change, shortchange
cheat out of by giving back less money than is due to someone who has overpaid
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short, short-change, shortchange
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(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
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synonyms:
castle
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type of:
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chess piece, chessman
any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess
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chess piece, chessman
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Vocabulary lists containing rook
A young sailor washes up on the shore of a remote island where the people pray for shipwrecks and scavenge the wreckage.
A young girl experiences triumph and despair as she becomes immersed in the world of competitive chess.
William must go on a quest to help a tiny knight living in a miniature castle.
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