What is "rook" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does rook mean in English? Meaning of rook definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "rook" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "rook": (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

Noun

  • Meaning: (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
  • Synonyms: castle rook
  • Hypernyms: chess piece chessman
  • Meaning of "rook": deprive of by deceit

    Verb

  • Meaning: deprive of by deceit
  • Example: 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: bunco con defraud diddle gip goldbrick gyp hornswoggle mulct nobble rook scam short-change swindle victimize
  • Hyponyms: short short-change
  • Hypernyms: cheat chisel rip off
  • Meaning of "rook": common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

    Noun

  • Meaning: common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
  • Synonyms: corvus frugilegus rook
  • Hypernyms: corvine bird
  • Synonyms:

    fleece, bilk, defraud, deceive, steal, bamboozle, swindle, fool, scam, cheat, swindle, bilk, betray, deceive, hoodwink, con,

    Antonyms:

    give, be honest, give, be honest,

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    rook in English: rook
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