rook in English dictionary

  • rook

    Meanings and definitions of "rook"

    • (baseball, slang) A rookie.
    • A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
    • A swindler; someone who betrays.
    • (UK) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
    • (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
    • (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
    • (rare) A castle or other fortification.
    • An Amish card game.
    • noun
      (chess)
      A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
    • noun
      (rare)
      A castle or other fortification.
    • noun
      A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
    • noun
      A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
    • noun
      (Britain)
      a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
    • noun
      A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
    • noun
      A chess playing piece. Each side starts with two.
    • noun
      (baseball, slang)
      A rookie.
    • noun
      mist; fog; roke
    • verb
      Eye dialect spelling of [i]look.[/i]
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To cheat or swindle.
    • verb
      (obsolete)
      To squat; to ruck.
    • bird
    • swindler
    • cheat, swindle
    • chesspiece
    • fortification
    • A piece of chess commonly shaped like a tower. Each player has two, and they move in straight horizontal or vertical lines across the board.
    • a bird, similar to crow and raven.
    • noun
      (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
    • noun
      common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
    • verb
      deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her";

    Synonyms of "rook" in English dictionary

    rip off, con, Corvus frugilegus are the top synonyms of "rook" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of rook

    • rook ( plural  rooks)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza rook lm  liczba mnoga rooks
    • rook ( third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)
    • rook (plural rooks)
    • rook (uncountable)
    • rook (third-person singular simple present rooks, present participle rooking, simple past and past participle rooked)
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