Crossword-Solution: ROOK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rook | n. | Mist; fog. See Roke. |
| Rook | v. i. | To squat; to ruck. |
| Rook | n. | One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle. |
| Rook | n. | 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. |
| Rook | n. | A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. |
| Rook | v. t. & i. | To cheat; to defraud by cheating. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROOK | anagram | KORO, KROO, OKRO |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with ROOK (5)
Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old _Lally Rook_, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man.
They began very promptly--these tender, fluttering sensations; they began with the sight of the beautiful English landscape, whose dark richness was quickened and brightened by the season; with the carpeted fields and flowering hedgerows, as she looked at them from the window of the train; with the spires of the rural churches peeping above the rook-haunted treetops; with the oak-studded parks, the ancient homes, the cloudy light, the speech, the manners, the thousand differences.
Knight, by one of those inexcusable oversights which will sometimes afflict the best of players, placed his rook in the arms of one of her pawns.
Suzanne, in her anxiety to pilot her cousin to the desired haven of the fur department, was usually a few paces ahead of the others, coming back to them now and then if they lingered for a moment at some attractive counter, with the nervous solicitude of a parent rook encouraging its young ones on their first flying expedition.
Archer, with an inclination of his head, ‘you portray a very brave existence.’ ‘Well,’ continued Jonathan, ‘and in the end thieves deceive you, thieves rob and rook you, thieves turn you out in your old age and send you begging.
Quotes with ROOK (3)
I don't care what you people say... we are not using a font that does not have fucking serifs." - Rook Myfanwy Thomas
Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.
With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook — that prissy little virtue, Temperance — for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 338 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).