Definitions for the word "rook" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Mist; fog. See Roke.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To squat; to ruck.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t. & i.
To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Black bird of the crow family nesting in colonies. v. 1 colloq. Charge (a customer) extortionately. 2 win money at cards etc., esp. By swindling. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
8. n.
Chess piece with a battlement-shaped top. [french from arabic]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. slang
a cheat, or tricky gambler; the opposite of “pigeon.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
10. slang
to cheat, to play “rook” to another’s “pigeon.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
11. slang
a clergyman, not only from his black attire, but also, perhaps,
from the old nursery favourite, the _History of Cock Robin_.
“I, says the ROOK,
With my little book,
I’ll be the parson.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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