| NOUN | artifact | rook, castle | (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard |
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| animal | rook, Corvus frugilegus | common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow | |
| VERB | social | rook, victimize, swindle, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con | deprive of by deceit |
| Sounds | ruh'k | |
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| Rhymes | book / Book ... yearbook: 43 rhymes with uhk... | |
| Meaning | (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard. | |
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| Synonym | castle | |
| Category | chess, chess game | A board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules |
| Broader | chessman, chess piece | Any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game / game of chess |
| Spanish | torre | |
| Catalan | torre | |
| Meaning | Common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow. | |
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| Synonym | Corvus frugilegus | |
| Member of | Corvus, genus Corvus | type genus of the Corvidae |
| Broader | corvine bird | birds of the crow family |
| Spanish | graja, grajo | |
| Catalan | Corvus frugilegus, graula | |
| Meaning | deprive of by deceit. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP | |
| Model | They rook him of all his money | |
| Synonyms | victimize, swindle, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con | |
| Narrower | short-change, short | cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
| Broader | cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit |
| Spanish | dar gato por liebre, defraudar, embaucar, engañar, estafar, petardear, timar, victimizar | |
| Catalan | defraudar, entabanar, estafar | |
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