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say it: ruuk
rook is a noun and verb meaning "(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard". It carries 3 recorded senses.
common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
deprive of by deceit
“He swindled me out of my inheritance”
“She defrauded the customers who trusted her”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rook come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.