rook
part of speech
noun (a rook, rooks); verb (rook, rooks, rooked, rooking — informal, old-fashioned)
meaning for a pupil
1) A rook is a large black bird of the crow family with a grey, bare patch of skin at the base of its beak; rooks live together in noisy groups. tree →
2) A rook is a chess piece shaped like a castle tower that moves straight along rows and columns; it is also called a castle. tree →
3) (informal, old-fashioned) To rook someone is to cheat them out of money. tree →
sense in the lessons
In nature lessons rooks are clever birds that nest in big groups called rookeries at the tops of trees, mostly in the UK and Europe. In chess lessons the rook is worth about five pawns and takes part in castling. Phrases: rook's nest, rookery, castling with the rook.
examples
- A rook landed on the field and pecked for worms. tree →
- Rooks build their nests together high in the elm trees. tree →
- The rookery was so noisy in spring that we heard it from the school. tree →
- My rook moved all the way across the board and captured her queen. tree →
- In chess each player starts with two rooks in the corners. tree →
- You can castle by moving your king two squares and jumping the rook over it. tree →
- (informal) The man at the fair rooked us out of five pounds. tree →
- Crows and rooks came by turns and sat on them, and talked of the hard times which were beginning, and how difficult it was in winter to obtain food. tree →
note
Plural rooks. A rook is different from a crow: rooks have a pale face and live in groups; crows are usually alone or in pairs. In chess problems, a rook usually counts as 5 points, a pawn as 1. A rookie (a beginner) is a different word.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rook» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.