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rook

/rʊk/

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noun
common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
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corvus frugilegus

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corvine bird
noun
(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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castle

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chess piece chessman
verb
deprive of by deceit
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bunco con defraud diddle goldbrick hornswoggle mulct nobble scam short-change swindle victimize

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cheat chisel rip off

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