rook
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Is rook a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of rook?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.Britishcountableuncountable
2. (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.Examples: "Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge, Rook."uncountable
3. (slang, archaic) A parson.archaiccountableslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.Examples: "Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there."Synonyms: cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle, tricktransitive
noun (English)
1. (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.Synonyms: castle
2. (rare) A castle or other fortification.rare
noun (English)
1. (baseball, slang) A rookie.slang
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.Examples: "The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary