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"Rook" in a Sentence (17 examples)
A rook is a chess piece.
The word "rook" comes from Sanskrit and means "chariot".
To the crow family belong the raven, the rook and the magpie.
It's not a raven, a crow, nor a magpie. It's a rook.
The chess pieces are pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king.
In castling, the king as well as a rook is moved.
In chess, castling may only be carried out when both the king and the involved rook have not been moved, all the squares between them are free and not dominated by any opposing piece and the king is not in check and would not be put in check by castling.
The chess pieces are: king, queen, bishop, knight, rook and pawn.
Can a rook in chess attack in a forward direction?
Tom sacrificed his rook to avoid mate.
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But what distinguishes the rook from the crow is the bill; the nostrils, chin, and sides of that and the mouth being in old birds white and bared of feathers, by often thrusting the bill into the ground in search of the erucæ of the Dor-beetle*; the rook then, instead of being proscribed, should be treated as the farmer's friend; as it clears his ground from caterpillars, that do incredible damage by eating the roots of the corn.
To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day: The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]
So I am (like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming) forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men, whose fancies are so vigorous that they ensure their success in their adventures with Muses, by their strength and imagination.
Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge, Rook.
They rook one shockingly at these places.
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.
The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top
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