Crossword clues for rookery
rookery
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]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"colony of rooks," 1725, from rook (n.1) + -ery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A colony of breeding birds or other animals. 2 A crowded tenement. 3 (context British English) a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
WordNet
n. a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)
Wikipedia
A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally birds. A rook is a Northern European and Central Asian member of the crow family, which nest in prominent colonies (multiple nests) at the tops of trees. The term is applied to the nesting place of birds, such as crows and rooks, the source of the term. The breeding grounds of colony-forming seabirds and marine mammals ( true seals or sea lions) and even some turtles are also referred to as rookeries.
The term rookery was also borrowed as a name for dense slum housing in nineteenth-century cities, and especially London.
Paleological evidence points to the existence of a pterodaustro rookery.
"Rookery" was a colloquial term given in the 18th and 19th centuries to a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes. Such areas were overcrowded, with low-quality housing and little or no sanitation. Poorly constructed dwellings, built with multiple storeys and often crammed into any area of open ground, created densely-populated areas of gloomy, narrow streets and alleyways.
A rookery is a colony of breeding birds and some marine mammals.
Rookery may also refer to:
- Rookery (slum), a term for a city slum, building, or ghetto frequented by poor people, criminals and prostitutes
- Rookery Building, a historic landmark located in the Loop community area of Chicago
- Rookery Hall, an Elizabethan-style mansion located near the village of Worleston, Cheshire
- Rookery Hill, a football stadium in Thurrock, Essex
- Rookery Islands, Holme Bay, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica
- Rookery Mound, an archaeological site near Everglades City, Florida
- Rookery railway station, a former railway station in Rainford, Lancashire, England
- The Rookery, Nantwich, a Georgian townhouse in Nantwich, Cheshire
- The Rookery, Tattenhall, a house in Tattenhall, Cheshire
Usage examples of "rookery".
Ikey was as natural a part of the chaffering, quarrelling humanity who lived in the rookeries among the slaughterhouses, cesspools and tanneries as anyone ever born in the square mile known to be the heartbeat of London Town.
Steel and Nina Malapert made their way into the Rookery, disguised under heavy cloaks and holo faces, with just enough hints about them to suggest they were two well-off ladies, slumming it in the Rookery for pleasures unobtainable in the more civilized parts of the city.
Duke Edward and Duke Harry would have burned every monkish rookery in the land if it would have furthered one ell their march to the throne.
In the teeming rookeries of Parker Place - since renamed - where Suydam had his basement flat, there had grown up a very unusual colony of unclassified slant-eyed folk who used the Arabic alphabet but were eloquently repudiated by the great mass of Syrians in and around Atlantic Avenue.
In the teeming rookeries of Parker Place--since renamed--where Suydam had his basement flat, there had grown up a very unusual colony of unclassified slant-eyed folk who used the Arabic alphabet but were eloquently repudiated by the great mass of Syrians in and around Atlantic Avenue.
Pteranodons flocked to the elasmosaur rookery in that season when females gathered to lay and males did battle for the right to beget new young.
He had been warned by the staff at Hummums to avoid the rookeries at all costs, but he had little concern for his life or scant property.
And on the rare occasions when humans and aliens proved interfertile, the hybrid results could only exist safely in places like the Rookery.
Maintaining a large rookery in their new homeland became quickly impossible as the sheer size of the Struth suggested a brighter future in small cooperative groups that would put far less stress on the food supply.
A strange, mystic, mountain race that had enormous powers yet kept, hermitlike, completely to itself in its mountain rookeries and in its volcanic steam-heated caverns far beneath the placid surface.
A resupply mission from a ship to the shore brings down a helicopter to within striking distance of a whole rookery of Adelie penguins.
It looked like a pelican rookery and UFO landing field down there, with all the Cappy Jane birds and the giant disk.
I see her in a place beyond even the furthest rookeries of the Easterlies, although you will not find it on any maps.
It was as if, living in the Easterlies, a denizen of the sooty heap of buildings he called Caris Rookery, Saul really didn't believe that he was in London at all.
It was a singularly ugly place, inhabited only by few varieties of lichen and a rookery of Adelie penguins who found Seymour Island an ample source for the small stones they use to build their nests.