Rook \Rook\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Rooked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rooking}.] To cheat; to defraud by cheating. ``A band of rooking officials.'' --Milton.
Rook \Rook\ (r[oo^]k), n. Mist; fog. See {Roke}. [Obs.]
Rook \Rook\, v. i. To squat; to ruck. [Obs.] --Shak.
Rook \Rook\, n. [F. roc (cf. Sp. roque), fr. Per. & Ar. rokh, or rukh, the rook or castle at chess, also the bird roc (in this sense perhaps a different word); cf. Hind. rath a war chariot, the castle at chess, Skr. ratha a car, a war car. Cf. {Roll}.] (Chess) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
Rook \Rook\, n. [AS. hr[=o]c; akin to OHG. hruoh, ruoh, ruoho, Icel. hr[=o]kr, Sw. roka, Dan. raage; cf. Goth. hrukjan to crow.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A European bird ({Corvus frugilegus}) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend. --Pennant.
2. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. --Wycherley.
Roke \Roke\, n. [See {Reek}.] 1. Mist; smoke; damp [Prov. Eng.] [Written also {roak}, {rook}, and {rouk}.]
2. A vein of ore. [Pov.Eng.] --Halliwell.
All of a sudden you're in a new company, you think you've got a rook on the back rank, and it turns out to be a pawn."
But the game turned in Karpov's favor when he advanced a queen and established a rook deep in black territory.
On move 23 (see diagram), Mr. Kasparov lets a couple of pieces hang; if his rook, for example, is captured, he delivers a lethal check with his bishop.
At the adjournment, Kasparov had just taken a pawn to finish with five pawns, a rook and the king.
Playing white, Yusupov gave up a rook for a bishop and two pawns on the 16th move to open up the defenses around Karpov's king.
Entering the endgame, the Soviet grandmaster, playing white, was a pawn up with a rook and knight against Timman's rook and bishop.
Entering the endgame, the Soviet grandmaster, playing white, was a pawn up with a rook and knight against Timman's rook and bishop.