The chessman that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

Usage examples of rook.

Their gazes connected, and Timothy was certain that the rook was well aware of the importance of stopping Alastor from getting back inside.

Here may be seen the Peer and the Prig, the Wise one and the Green one, the Pigeon and the Rook amalgamated together.

One afternoon there rose up a flock of rooks out of a large oak tree standing separate in the midst of an arable field which was then at last being ploughed.

Blankenship had moved a rook to an innocent-looking square and strolled on to the next boardand then Del had seen the checkmate coming at him, four moves away but one move too late for him to do anything about it.

In die mijmering was het hem, of de drie anderen zeer ver van hem waren, als van hem gescheiden door den nevel van rook.

The very rooks are black, and the starlings and the wintry fieldfares and redwings have no colour at a distance.

The partridges were paired, the rooks were well on with their nests, and the meadows were full of shimmering grey flocks of fieldfares on their way north.

They began to be shot at near Findon Beeches, but at first only with a rook rifle.

The hawks, and the gleads, and the ravens, and the carrion-crows, and the hooded-crows, and the rooks, and the magpies, and all the rest of the rural militia, forgetting their own feuds, sometimes came sallying from all quarters, with even a few facetious jackdaws from the old castle, to show fight with the monarch of the air.

But do you remember one time we were together in the starboard Rook, forward, when Ikky broke water like a porpoise?

For sport, Corwick Mools threw a handful of maggots high into the air and the swiftest rooks caught them on the wing.

The rooks were wheeling over the plough-lands, and the peesweeps and snipe were calling in every meadow.

Glossy, raggy black rooks circled the elms where stick-nests bulged like cancers of the twigs within parasols of leaves.

I got a like backhand tolchock with some ringy rooker or other full on the rot.

They had found and had had borne up to the suite an immense chess setthe board a yard square and fashioned of squares of semiprecious stones framed in gilded silver, the pieces each an exquisite little marble or alabaster statuette, the kings and the queens wearing real golden crowns with tiny gemstones inset, the knights all armored and grasping perfect little swords of real steel, the bishops equipped with steel maces, the rooks complete to the last detail and including infinitesimally small bombards of brass mounted on the tower tops.