'Rook' definitions:

Definition of 'rook'

noun

(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard [syn: castle, rook]

noun

Common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow [syn: rook, Corvus frugilegus]

verb

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" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

From: GCIDE

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]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

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]

From: GCIDE

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]

From: 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