Crossword clues for rookeries
rookeries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rookery \Rook"er*y\, n.; pl. Rookeries.
The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
--Tennyson.A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
A brothel. [Low]
Wiktionary
n. (plural of rookery English)
Usage examples of "rookeries".
It had not taken long for the force at Bow Street to appreciate his finer points, most particularly his willingness to go to the rookeries and flash houses that no one else dared to venture into.
That spring I was plume hunting for the Frenchman, and Possum was close to the big rookeries up the Glades creeks back of Alligator Bay, and handy to the Mikasukis, too, trading plumes and otter.
There was bigger rookeries down around Cape Sable, which the Bradleys was working with the Roberts boys, but the Cape was just too far from Gopher Key.
The rookeries over by Lake Okeechobee, they was shot out in four years, and by the turn of the century the west coast birds was giving out, from Tampa all the way south to Cape Sable.
If you recall that plumes would bring exactly twice their weight in gold, you can figure out why men fought over rookeries, and shot to kill.
The Roberts boys went partners with the Bradleys, and those fellers was still doing pretty good around Flamingo, but most places birds had grew so scarce that us regular hunters set guards around what few poor rookeries was left.
The proximity of great riches and profound squalor also impressed foreign observers, particularly since the slums, or rookeries, were refuges and breeding places for "the criminal class.
But Nick Gentry answered Lottie’s questions with stunning frankness, explaining exactly what occurred in the rookeries of London, and the difficulties the Bow Street runners encountered in trying to bring criminals to justice.
Coming from no man knew where in the illimitable Pacific, it was travelling north on its annual migration to the rookeries of Bering Sea.
It was only a foot and a half long, and in my superb ignorance I never dreamed that the club used ashore when raiding the rookeries measured four to five feet.
So I and a couple of others flew around to the rookeries and recruited.
And men would go up into those seal rookeries and use clubs to bash in the heads of the seal pups.
After years of serving as a Runner, he was getting damned tired of alley fights and subduing riots, and chasing criminals through rookeries and cess-trenches.
This area of London was well known to Keyes, as all the Runners were routinely assigned to comb through the rookeries in search of criminals.
I suspect your brother was hardened from his experiences in the rookeries and flash houses.