1. rook(n = noun.artifact) castle - (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard;
is a kind of chess piece, chessman
2. rook(n = noun.animal) corvus frugilegus - common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow;
is a kind of corvine bird
is a member of corvus, genus corvus
rook(v = verb.social) bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
is one way to cheat, chisel, rip off
Sample sentences:
They rook him of all his money
Mist; fog. See Roke. [1913 Webster]
To squat; to ruck. Shak. [1913 Webster]
One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle. [1913 Webster]
1. A European bird (
"The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend." [1913 Webster]
2. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. Wycherley. [1913 Webster]
To cheat; to defraud by cheating. Milton. [1913 Webster]
rook, n. & v.
--n.
1 a black European and Asiatic bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family, nesting in colonies in tree-tops.
2 a sharper, esp. at dice or cards; a person who lives off inexperienced gamblers etc.
--v.tr.
1 charge (a customer) extortionately.
2 win money from (a person) at cards etc. esp. by swindling.
rook, n. a chess piece with its top in the shape of a battlement.
Etymology:
ME f. OF roc(k) ult. f. Arab. rukk, orig. sense uncert.
VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.
N thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier, piqueerer, pickeerer, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter, Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman, Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, Dillinger, Al Capone, Robin Hood.