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Rook   /rʊk/   Listen
noun
Roke  n.  
1.
Mist; smoke; damp (Prov. Eng.) (Written also roak, rook, and rouk)
2.
A vein of ore. (Pov.Eng.)


Rook  n.  Mist; fog. See Roke. (Obs.)


Rook  n.  (Chess) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.


Rook  n.  
1.
(Zool.) 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. "The rook... should be treated as the farmer's friend."
2.
A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.


verb
Rook  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. rooked; pres. part. rooking)  To cheat; to defraud by cheating. "A band of rooking officials."


Rook  v. i.  To squat; to ruck. (Obs.)





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"Rook" Quotes from Famous Books



... the door. Three other little girls looked on in open-mouthed appreciation. I do not wish to shock you, so I will not tell you about the complete success of the booby-trap, nor of the bloodthirsty fight between Lucy and Bertha Kaurter in a secluded fives-court during rec. Dora Spielman and Gertrude Rook were agitated seconds. It was Lucy's form mistress, the adored Miss Harter Larke, who interrupted the fight at the fifth round, and led the blood-stained culprits into the hall and up the beautiful picture-like steps to ...
— Oswald Bastable and Others • Edith Nesbit
... it a thought that they could be after aught worse than rook-shooting," she would murmur, "for all I heard a sort of a sobbing on the stairs. It was hard on poor old Madam though, never to take any leave of her; but all her life has been hard for that matter, poor innocent old critter. Well, well, I hope it's not a sin to wish 'em happy, spite ...
— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow
... churchyard, embracing the vicarage-house, a comfortable residence, surrounded by a large walled-in garden, well stocked with fruit-trees, and sheltered by a fine grove of rook-haunted timber, extended on the one hand over the village, and on the other over the Abbey, and was bounded by the towering and well-wooded heights of Whalley Nab. On the side of the Abbey, the most conspicuous objects were the great ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... there softly sounds, beside some flowering tree The oboe of the dancing gnat, the cornet of the bee. Such tiny notes—and yet with ease their cadence I can trace, While over-head some passing rook puts in his noisy bass, Or from a green and shady copse, a daisied field away, I hear the jarring discords of a magpie ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... didn't. One on 'em belonged to a man as I once knowed; leastways I remember him as a young chap. He was underkeeper at the Hall. The young woman he wanted to marry wouldn't 'ave 'im, so he shot hisself wi' a rook gun. I knowed it was 'im by the 'ole in 'is 'ead, no bigger nor a pea. Just think o' that! No bigger nor a big pea, I tell yer, and as round as if it had been done wi' a punch. I told my missis about ...
— Mad Shepherds - and Other Human Studies • L. P. Jacks


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