rook
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(noun) common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow |
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Synonyms: Corvus frugilegus |
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Related Words: corvine bird |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance" |
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Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gyp, mulct, nobble, swindle |
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Related Words: beat, cheat, rip off, sell short, short, short-change |
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(noun) the chessman that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard |
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Synonyms: castle |
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Related Words: chess piece, chessman |
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