I. ˈru̇k noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English rok, rook, from Old English hrōc; akin to Old High German hruoh, ruoho rook, Old Norse hrōkr rook, Gothic hrukjan to crow, Greek krōzein, krazein to croak, Sanskrit khargalā owl, Old English hræfn raven — more at raven
1.
a. : a common Old World gregarious bird ( Corvus frugilegus ) about the size and color of the American crow with the skin about the base of the bill becoming bare, scabrous, and whitish with age
b. : ruddy duck
2. : a cheat or swindler especially in gaming
3. obsolete : one easily deceived : dupe
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II. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
transitive verb
1. : to defraud by cheating or swindling
arrested for rooking the public in door-to-door campaigns — Time
takes to the market and gets rooked — Commonweal
2. obsolete : to take or steal (as goods or money) by cheating
intransitive verb
obsolete : to engage in cheating
III. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English rok, roke, from Middle French roc, from Arabic rukhkh, from Persian
: a piece in a set of chessmen that moves parallel to the sides of the board across any number of unoccupied squares — called also castle