rooks in English

noun

1

a gregarious Eurasian crow with black plumage and a bare face, nesting in colonies in treetops.

Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs.

2

a chess piece, typically with its top in the shape of a battlement, that can move in any direction along a rank or file on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two rooks at opposite ends of the first rank.

With the rise in use of exchange sacrifices, rook versus minor piece endgames are becoming more common, and there are key defensive techniques that a player must know.

verb

1

take money from (someone) by cheating, defrauding, or overcharging them.

And they were convinced they'd rooked us… Yeah, the perfect business deal.

noun

castle

verb

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

Use "rooks" in a sentence

1. “Like Rooks Upon a Falcon”

2. The rooks flew clumsily towards their nests.

3. The poor bewildered creature was being mobbed by rooks.

4. The rooks flew Clumsily towards their nests

5. Since rooks have black legs, cheats are also called Blacklegs

6. ‘Rooks Caw in the trees, jackdaws nest in their new chimney, sparrows feed on neighbours' tables.’ ‘But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks Caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine.’ ‘Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; rooks Caw …

7. Swallows whipped low across the fields, while rooks flew clumsily towards their high nests.

8. From without, the Cawing of rooks and shouts of children at play are faintly audible

9. While ' Birdbrain ' has long been a pejorative term used to insult someone's intelligence, rooks are considered particularly smart

10. Some groups of roosting corvids can be very large, with a roost of 65,000 rooks counted in Scotland.

11. Times, Sunday Times ( 2012 ) Swindon is a 20- minute drive away, but the only sound up here is the Cawing of rooks.

12. I've seen this buzzard mobbed by other members of the local crow tribe, the rooks, plenty of times before.

13. There were some rooks in front of the door which was moving its legs and wings but seemed to be immobilized.

14. French theme park sends rooks out on litter patrol Soon enough, calling someone a ' Birdbrain ' may not be an insult but a marketing slogan.

15. Magot-pies, choughs and rooks are all, like parrots, talking birds who could potentially betray their masters by revealing secrets, although the larger implication of Auspicy is not to be ignored here

16. This page shows answers to the clue Clamour.Clamour may be defined as “Clamour is the collective noun for a group of rooks” and “The USS Clamour was an American Admirable Class minesweeper of 625 tons displacement launched in 1942”

17. If all four Castlings are still legal, Shredder-FEN notates that as BGbg (or BbGg, any sequence is fine); because those are the start columns of all rooks that are still able to participate in castling

18. Welcome to Maine Public's All Books Considered Book Club! Every two months or so we will feature a book from a preeminent national and Maine author and hold a virtual book club meeting attended by the author and hosted by either Jennifer Rooks or Cindy Han from Maine Calling.

19. 1858, The Naturalist (volume 8, page 147) Whilst the proceedings of the Rooks seemed to be regulated with order and system, their Cawings were significant of a good understanding, and the musical tones mentioned by the Editor of "The Naturalist," no one could fail to distinguish.

20. 1858, The Naturalist (volume 8, page 147) Whilst the proceedings of the Rooks seemed to be regulated with order and system, their Cawings were significant of a good understanding, and the musical tones mentioned by the Editor of "The Naturalist," no one could fail to distinguish

21. Corvus is a widely distributed genus of medium-sized to large birds in the family Corvidae.The genus includes species commonly known as Crows, ravens and rooks; there is no consistent distinction between "Crows" and "ravens", and these appellations have been assigned to different species chiefly on the basis of their size, Crows generally being smaller than ravens.

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23. Lachlan sat alone in his Bothie, busily employed, in twisting his oat straw siaman, humming to himself, and listening to the sound of the torrent as it dashed over the rooks, the pattering of the heavy rain, and the sheughs of the north-west wind, moaning as it passed along, all of which only served to increase his sense of comfort as he drew his three-legged stool nearer to the bright peat