rook

Noun · Verb

Synonyms: castle Corvus frugilegus victimize swindle goldbrick nobble diddle bunco defraud scam mulct gyp

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboardSynonyms: castle
common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crowSynonyms: Corvus frugilegus

Verb (1)

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”Synonyms: victimize swindle goldbrick nobble diddle bunco defraud scam mulct gyp gip hornswoggle short-change con

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Roke \Roke\, n. [See Reek.]

1.Mist; smoke; damp [Prov. Eng.] [Written also roak, rook, and rouk.] [1913 Webster]

2.A vein of ore. [Pov.Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] Rokeage

Rook \Rook\, n. [AS. hr[=o]c; akin to OHG. hruoh, ruoh, ruoho, Icel. hr[=o]kr, Sw. roka, Dan. raage; cf. Goth. hrukjan to crow.]

1.(Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]

The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend.— Pennant.[1913 Webster]

2.A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. --Wycherley. [1913 Webster]

Rook \Rook\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Rooking.] To cheat; to defraud by cheating. "A band of rooking officials." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Rook \Rook\ (r[oo^]k), n. Mist; fog. See Roke. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Rook \Rook\, v. i. To squat; to ruck. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Rook \Rook\, n. [F. roc (cf. Sp. roque), fr. Per. & Ar. rokh, or rukh, the rook or castle at chess, also the bird roc (in this sense perhaps a different word); cf. Hind. rath a war chariot, the castle at chess, Skr. ratha a car, a war car. Cf. Roll.] (Chess) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle. [1913 Webster]