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What (who) is rook - definition
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Rooks; ROOK; The Rook; Rook (disambiguation)
rook
(rooks)
1.
A rook is a large black bird. Rooks are members of the crow family.
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2.
In chess, a rook is one of the chess pieces which stand in the corners of the board at the beginning of a game. Rooks can move forwards, backwards, or sideways, but not diagonally.
= castle
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rook
rook1
¦ noun a gregarious crow with black plumage and a bare face, nesting in colonies in treetops. [Corvus frugilegus.]
¦ verb informal defraud, swindle, or overcharge.
Origin
OE hroc, prob. imitative and of Gmc origin.
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rook2
¦ noun a chess piece, typically with its top in the shape of a battlement, that can move in any direction along a rank or file on which it stands.
Origin
ME: from OFr. rock, based on Arab. ru?? (of which the sense remains uncertain).
Rook
·noun Mist; fog. ·see Roke.
II. Rook ·noun A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
IV. Rook ·vt & ·vi To Cheat; to defraud by cheating.
V. Rook ·noun One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
VI. Rook ·noun 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.
Examples of use of rook
1. Judge Peter Rook QC set no maximum term on Tracy‘s sentence.
2. After a check from the rook, Kramnik was forced to give up the right to castle and put his king on f8, which blocked in his rook on h8.
3. By move 20, I am in a dominant position, a rook to the good.
4. Judge Peter Rook lifted that order saying he did not think reporting the man‘s identity would prejudice his future trial.
5. A rook some claimed; jackdaw; some idiots were even claiming raven.