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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
rook
n 1: (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied
squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the
chessboard [syn: castle, rook]
2: common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of
the American crow [syn: rook, Corvus frugilegus]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Roke \Roke\, n. [See Reek.]
1. Mist; smoke; damp [Prov. Eng.] [Written also roak,
rook, and rouk.]
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2. A vein of ore. [Pov.Eng.] --Halliwell.
[1913 Webster] Rokeage
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Rook \Rook\, n. [AS. hr[=o]c; akin to OHG. hruoh, ruoh, ruoho,
Icel. hr[=o]kr, Sw. roka, Dan. raage; cf. Goth. hrukjan to
crow.]
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.
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The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's
friend. --Pennant.
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2. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
--Wycherley.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Rook \Rook\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rooked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rooking.]
To cheat; to defraud by cheating. "A band of rooking
officials." --Milton.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Rook \Rook\ (r[oo^]k), n.
Mist; fog. See Roke. [Obs.]
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Rook \Rook\, v. i.
To squat; to ruck. [Obs.] --Shak.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Rook \Rook\, n. [F. roc (cf. Sp. roque), fr. Per. & Ar. rokh, or
rukh, the rook or castle at chess, also the bird roc (in this
sense perhaps a different word); cf. Hind. rath a war
chariot, the castle at chess, Skr. ratha a car, a war car.
Cf. Roll.] (Chess)
One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the
board; a castle.
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Thesaurus Results for Rook:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
beat, beguile of, bilk, bishop, bleed, bunco, burn, castle, cheat, chessman, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, king, knight, man, milk, mulct, pack the deal, pawn, piece, pigeon, practice fraud upon, queen, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, sweat, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize |
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Common Misspellings > |
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