Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Chess castle”4 letters
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