rook|rooks in English

noun

[rʊk]

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

Use "rook|rooks" in a sentence

1. “Like Rooks Upon a Falcon”

2. White Knight to White Rook.

3. The rooks flew clumsily towards their nests.

4. Move your rook out, then checkmate...

5. White cannot safely take the rook.

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

7. The expression Blackleg originated from the bird rook

8. The rooks flew Clumsily towards their nests

9. The expression Blackleg originated from the bird rook

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

11. ‘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 …

12. 21 synonyms for Chiseler: bilk, cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, trickster

13. A rook on the seventh rank is sufficient compensation for a pawn (Fine & Benko 2003:586).

14. Qxb2 Black gains a pawn, and threatens to gain the rook at a1 with check.

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

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

17. Yet the rook remains the most truly sociable member of the corvid family, delighting in its Cawing communal life

18. Chrisowen: Badgerings abound b7 thats needed c7 as clear a d8 daggers b8 and have b5 line blind corner b7 covered d1 indeed c7 and b5 also combine vide sense a queen wave in b7 off marred just what the doctor ordered raging bullshin etc rook b8 come queen rook.

19. This is particularly shown in how Rugga backs Alette in the beginning rather than trying to overthrow her like in the case of Rook

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

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

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

24. 🔊 I don’t think my decision to take out my opponent’s rook with my knight was a move he Anticipated

25. As nouns the difference between Crow and rook is that Crow is a bird, usually black, of the genus corvus , having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call while rook is a european bird, (taxlink), of the Crow family or rook can be (chess) a piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling