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Roost

//ɹust// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).

    "He clapp'd his wings upon his roost."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of roust (“strong tide or current”). Orkney, Shetland, alt-of, alternative

    "Sometimes the whole tract swung to one side, like the tail of a live serpent; sometimes, for a glimpse, it would all disappear and then boil up again. What it was I had no guess, which for the time increased my fear of it; but I now know it must have been the roost or tide race, which had carried me away so fast and tumbled me about so cruelly, and at last, as if tired of that play, had flung out me and the spare yard upon its landward margin."

  3. 3
    a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep wordnet
  4. 4
    A group of birds roosting together.
  5. 5
    a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds wordnet
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  1. 6
    A bedroom.
  2. 7
    The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space. Scotland
  3. 8
    A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
  4. 9
    Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).
Verb
  1. 1
    To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest. intransitive
  2. 2
    Alternative form of roust. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    settle down or stay, as if on a roost wordnet
  4. 4
    To spend the night. figuratively

    "The UPS package centre for central London, a brief walk from Kentish Town tube station, holds a below-ground bay in which 170 vans roost every night."

  5. 5
    sit, as on a branch wordnet
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  1. 6
    To kick (a ball) a long distance. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōst, from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan. Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōst, from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan. Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

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