rook

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a black crow-like bird; a chess castle; to cheat or swindle

   A rook cawed from the bare branches of the elm.

From Old English hrōc ('rook, the bird'), of imitative origin (echoing its harsh cry), from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz. The 'castle' chess sense is separate, from Old French roc, from Persian rukh.

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