Definitions for rook

Overview of noun rook

The noun rook has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. castle, rook

((chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard)

2. rook, Corvus frugilegus

(common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow)

Overview of verb rook

The verb rook has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con

(deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change")