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Word entry · 4 letters

rook

Best crossword clue

"Chess castle"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɹʊk/Part of speech noun, verbSorted koorStarts with REnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English rook, rooke, roke, rok, from Old French roc, ultimately from Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”). Compare roc.

Used in a sentence

  • To-night the winds begin to rise ⁠And roar from yonder dropping day: ⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]
  • Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge, Rook.
  • They rook one shockingly at these places.

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