Bilk vs Rook - What's the difference?
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(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
(obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 615:
*:They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.
A European bird, Corvus frugilegus , of the crow family.
* Pennant
A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
(British) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
To cheat or swindle.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
(chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
(rare) A castle or other fortification.
mist; fog; roke
In obsolete terms the difference between bilk and rook
is that bilk is a deception, a hoax while rook is to squat; to ruck.In transitive terms the difference between bilk and rook
is that bilk is to do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone) while rook is to cheat or swindle.bilk
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)rook
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rok, roke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The rook should be treated as the farmer's friend.
- (Wycherley)
Synonyms
* (swindler) swindler, cheatHypernyms
* (bird) bird * (firecracker) firecrackerVerb
(en verb)- Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.