Rook vs Roof - What's the difference?
rook | roof |
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
The cover at the top of a building.
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, title= * 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph'', ''The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:
The upper part of a cavity.
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, title= (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
As a noun rook
is skirt.As a proper noun roof is
(astronomy) a chinese constellation located near aquarius and pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger black turtle.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.
Synonyms
* (sense) cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindleEtymology 2
From (etyl) roc, ultimately from (etyl) . Compare (roc).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (chesspiece) castleSee also
* *See also
* squabEtymology 3
From rookie .Etymology 4
Noun
(-)Etymology 5
Anagrams
* ----roof
English
(wikipedia roof)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
- The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof / (Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.
Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan, passage=As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.}}