Crossword-Solution: ROOKERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rookery | n. | The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. |
| Rookery | n. | A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc. |
| Rookery | n. | The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals. |
| Rookery | n. | A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings. |
| Rookery | n. | A brothel. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “ROOKERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Breeding ground for birds | 1 answer |
| Breeding ground for seals. | 1 answer |
| Breeding place for birds. | 1 answer |
| Colony of seals. | 1 answer |
| Dilapidated tenement | 1 answer |
| Nesting site of penguin | 1 answer |
| New Yorker putting duck in home for birds | 1 answer |
| Penguin or seal colony | 1 answer |
| SEAL (marine mammal), breeding place of | 1 answer |
| Seal Island, for example. | 1 answer |
| Sealery. | 1 answer |
| BIRD colony | 2 answers |
| Crow's home | 4 answers |
| Tenement | 11 answers |
| A BREEDING GROUND FOR GREGARIOUS BIRDS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ROOKERY (5)
Then dark they lie and stark they lie -- rookery, dune, and floe, And the Northern Lights come down o' nights to dance with the houseless snow; And God Who clears the grounding berg and steers the grinding floe, He hears the cry of the little kit-fox and the wind along the snow.
The top of the rock was somewhat cone-shaped, and in order to reach the peak and the colonies on the west side we had to make our way through this rookery of the murres.
Yes, he knew them; but when? and how? Long since, he thought; and then, casting his eye through the front glass, which had been recently occluded by the figure of the jarvey, he beheld the tree-tops of the rookery in Randolph Crescent.
There is so often a threatening note, something blatant and metallic, in the voice of bells, that I believe we have fully more pain than pleasure from hearing them; but these, as they sounded abroad, now high, now low, now with a plaintive cadence that caught the ear like the burthen of a popular song, were always moderate and tunable, and seemed to fall in with the spirit of still, rustic places, like the noise of a waterfall or the babble of a rookery in spring.
Perchance, with a dovecot in the centre, and fowls peeking about—with fair elm trees, then, where discoloured chimney-stacks and gables are now—noisy, then, with rooks which have yielded to a different sort of rookery.
Quotes with ROOKERY (3)
Just as I am watching a tongue of blue flame rising in the fire, and my lamp is burning low, the horrible contraction will begin in my chest. I shall only have time to reach the bell, and pull it violently, before the sense of suffocation will come. No one will answer my bell. I know why. My two servants are lovers, and will have quarrelled. My housekeeper will have rushed out of the house in a fury, two hours before, hoping that Perry will believe she has gone to drown herse…
Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head." Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.
The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1945–2011).