Usually means: Chess piece, moves horizontally, vertically.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word rook:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rook: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rook: Merriam-Webster
  3. rook, rook: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rook, rook: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rook: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rook: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rook, rook: Wordnik
  8. rook: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rook: Wiktionary
  10. rook: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rook: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rook: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rook, rook: Dictionary.com
  14. rook (1), rook (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rook: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rook (album), Rook (bird), Rook (card game), Rook (chess), Rook (comics), Rook (disambiguation), Rook (piercing), Rook (surname), Rook, The Rook (TV series), The Rook (comics), The Rook (miniseries), The Rook (novel), The Rook: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rook: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rook: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rook: Rhymezone
  20. rook, rook (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rook: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Rook: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. rook: FreeDictionary.org
  24. rook: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. rook: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rook (person): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rook (person), rook: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rook: HYPP Zoology

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rook (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. rook, rook, rook, rook: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rook: Card Games

(Note: See rooked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
noun:  A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
noun:  A bad deal; a rip-off.
noun:  (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
noun:  (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A parson.
verb:  (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
noun:  (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
noun:  (rare) A castle or other fortification.
noun:  (baseball, slang) A rookie.
noun:  mist; fog; roke
verb:  (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
verb:  Pronunciation spelling of look. (mimicking Asian speech) [To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.]

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