Rook

  • 61Rook (piercing) — Infobox Piercing name = Rook nicknames = image size = 200px location = Anti helix jewelry = healing time = A rook is the name for a piercing on the anti helix of the ear.The rook piercing tends to be much more painful due to the large amounts of… …

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  • 62rook's tour — noun : a chess problem in which a rook makes a circuit of the board touching each square once …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 63rook — 1. noun /rʊk/ a) A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family. b) A swindler; someone who betrays. Syn: swindler, cheat 2 …

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  • 64rook — Synonyms and related words: beat, beguile of, bilk, bishop, bleed, bunco, burn, castle, cheat, chessman, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 65rook — North Country (Newcastle) Words a mist or fog; roopy, rouky misty, damp, foggy …

    English dialects glossary

  • 66rook — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. cheat, fleece (see stealing). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. trick, swindle, cheat; see cheat , deceive . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) I noun A person who cheats: bilk, cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 67rook — v To cheat or deceive. You paid $5 for that? You ve beenrooked. 1590s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 68rook — sb. O. and N. 1128. AS. roc …

    Oldest English Words

  • 69rook — rÊŠk n. castle, game piece that can move horizontally or vertically across an unlimited number of unoccupied squares (Chess); swindler, cheat; one who cheats in games of chance; (Zoology) black European bird of the crow family v. cheat, swindle,… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 70Rook — plunder. These days, to say that you are …

    Scottish slang