What is "rook"

Roke \Roke\, n. [See Reek.]

1. Mist; smoke; damp [Prov. Eng.] [Written also roak, rook, and rouk.]

2. A vein of ore. [Pov.Eng.]
   --Halliwell.

"European crow," Old English hroc, from Proto-Germanic *khrokaz (cognates: Old Norse hrokr, Middle Dutch roec, Dutch roek, Middle Swedish roka, Old High German hruoh "crow"), possibly imitative of its raucous voice (compare Gaelic roc "croak," Sanskrit kruc "to cry out"). Used as a disparaging term for persons since at least c.1500, and extended by 1570s to mean "a cheat," especially at cards or dice.

chess piece, c.1300, from Old French roc, from Arabic rukhkh, from Persian rukh, of unknown meaning, perhaps somehow related to the Indian name for the piece, rut, from Hindi rath "chariot." Confused in Middle English with roc.

"to defraud by cheating" (originally especially in a game), 1590s, from rook (n.1) in some sense (such as "a gull, simpleton," but this is not attested until 17c.). Related: Rooked; rooking.

Etymology 1 n. 1 A European bird, ''Corvus frugilegus'', of the crow family. 2 A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays. 3 (context British English) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name. 4 A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards. vb. (context transitive English) To cheat or swindle. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context chess English) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling. 2 (context rare English) A castle or other fortification. Etymology 3

n. (context baseball slang English) A rookie. Etymology 4

n. mist; fog; roke Etymology 5

vb. (context obsolete English) To squat; to ruck.

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

2. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow [syn: Corvus frugilegus]

3. v. 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, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con]

A rook (♖ ♜ borrowed from Persian رخ, rokh) is a piece in the strategy board game of chess. Formerly the piece was called the tower, marquess, rector, and comes . The term castle is considered informal, incorrect, or old-fashioned. However, in Persian the word for "castling" is qal'eh raften (from qal'eh, "castle") and not rokh raftan.

Each player starts the game with two rooks, one in each of the corner squares on their own side of the board.

Rook or rooks may refer to:

Rook is a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards. Sometimes referred to as "Christian cards" or "missionary poker", Rook playing cards were introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906 to provide an alternative to standard playing cards for those in the Puritan tradition or Mennonite culture who considered the face cards in a regular deck inappropriate because of their association with gambling and cartomancy.

Rook is the name of a British rocket. Twenty five Rook rockets were launched between 1959 and 1972. The launches took place from Aberporth in Wales and from Woomera in South Australia. The Rook has a maximum flight altitude of 20 kilometres, a launch mass of 1.2 tons and a length of 5 metres.

Rook is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers series.

The rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds. It was given its binomial name by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, The binomial is from Latin; Corvus is for "raven", and frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering", from frux, frugis, "fruit", and legere, "to pick". the English name is ultimately derived from the bird's harsh call.

Rook is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Aaron P. Rook (1892-1969), writer, musician, novelist and travel writer
• Alan Rook, editor of the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry, one of the Cairo poets
• Jean Rook (1931–1991), British newspaper columnist
• Jerry Rook (born 1943), American former professional basketball player
• Susan Rook, journalist and photographer

A rook piercing is a perforation of the antihelix of the ear for the purpose of wearing jewelry. It is located just above the tragus on the ridge between the inner and outer conch with the piercing passing from the underside to the top of this ridge, differing from many ear piercings that essentially span between a "front" and "back" surface. Erik Dakota, a well known professional piercer and the individual responsible for popularizing the rook piercing, is said to have named this modification after a shortened version of his first name. The piercing was first named in issue #4 of the magazine Body Play and Modern Primitives Quarterly (published by Fakir Musafar) around 1992 alongside the first printed reference to the industrial piercing, then termed "industrial ear project".

Rook is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Shearwater. It was released on June 3, 2008, on the Matador Records label. The track "Rooks" was the first single from the album. The album was previewed on May 5, 2008 and May 29, 2008, at two special concerts in Manhattan and Austin, Texas. The band toured in support of the album later in 2008. The album gained the band a spot on Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" on May 28.

Shearwater released the album on both CD and vinyl, with the vinyl version having a bonus track called "North Col".

Co-founder Jonathan Meiburg said he chose the title for the sound of the word and the fact that it has multiple meanings. The theme of birds recurs frequently with the band, from their name to titles of songs and albums (for example, "Sing, Little Birdie" and Winged Life). Meiburg is an ornithologist.