Word "ROOK" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
Synonyms:
corvus frugilegus

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
Synonyms:
castle

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
deprive of by deceit
Synonyms:
bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize

Crossword Clues for ROOK

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Chess piece that looks like a castle
Which piece occupies the four corners of the board at the start of a game of chess? (4)
Bird with black plumage in stream initially ignored (4)
Chess "castle" New York Times 17 Apr 2024
Something with feathers - or fleece (4)
Swindle a man on the board (4)
Chessboard castle Newsday 10 Apr 2024
Another name for the chesspiece the castle (4)
Bird you can play with (4)
The cornermost piece in a chess board. (4)
Corner piece in 65-Across Universal 25 Mar 2024
Overcharge man on board
Black bird Mirror Classic 16 Mar 2024
Chess piece moved during castling along with the king
One of the creatures that can fly and do (4)
Corner chess piece USA Today 11 Mar 2024
Cheat on the board
Chess piece that starts in a corner
Species of crow
Castle The Guardian Quick 27 Feb 2024
Defraud with corner piece (4)
Chessboard castle Universal 20 Feb 2024
Chessman The Guardian Speedy 18 Feb 2024
Bird that may swindle you (4)
A1 chess piece? (4)
Chess piece worth five points USA Today 08 Feb 2024
Large Eurasian bird of the crow family (4)
Chess piece that moves straight
Black bird Mirror Quick 23 Jan 2024
King loves right flipping castle Mirror Cryptic 23 Jan 2024
Chess piece that starts on a corner of the board
Bird in stream with head obscured (4)
Black bird The Guardian Quick 11 Jan 2024
Chess piece shaped like a battlement New York Times 01 Jan 2024
Chess piece that begins in the corner
Corner chess piece Universal 18 Dec 2023
Chess corner piece Newsday 04 Dec 2023
Treetop bird
Cheat man on board The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Nov 2023
Cheat man on board (4)
Castling participant Wall Street Journal 27 Sep 2023
Corner chess piece LA Times Daily 25 Sep 2023
Corner piece New York Times 21 Sep 2023
A chess piece The Telegraph Quick 29 Aug 2023
Castle Eugene Sheffer 28 Aug 2023
Chess piece with the second-highest value New York Times 23 Aug 2023
Knight's neighbor Wall Street Journal 14 Aug 2023
Neighbor of a knight New York Times 08 Aug 2023
Chess piece The Telegraph Quick 02 Aug 2023
Bird of the crow family The Times Concise 26 Jul 2023
Deprive of by deceit The Guardian Quick 25 Jul 2023
Chess piece that is usually represented as a turret from a castle
Castle on board The Telegraph Quick 16 Jul 2023
Chess piece also called "castle"
Castle, in chess
Corner piece Thomas Joseph 04 May 2023
Castle, on a chess board
Corner piece Thomas Joseph 30 Mar 2023
Corner piece Wall Street Journal 08 Feb 2023
Chess piece resembling a castle USA Today 26 Jan 2023
"Castle" chess piece
Castle Eugene Sheffer 06 Dec 2022
Chess "castle" Universal 29 Nov 2022
Chess piece that goes straight Universal 12 Oct 2022
Corner chess piece Universal 01 Oct 2022
Castle-shaped chess piece USA Today 22 Sep 2022
Swindle man on board The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Jul 2022
Chessboard corner piece Newsday 05 Jul 2022
Revolutionary or reasonable man The Times Cryptic 20 Jun 2022
Castle, to some chess players
Corner piece Thomas Joseph 10 Jun 2022
Chess piece often given a relative value of five points, a pawn being worth one The Times Specialist Sunday 08 May 2022
Chess "castle"
Chess "castle" Universal 07 Apr 2022
Corner chess piece USA Today 03 Apr 2022
Member of a chess set Family Time 28 Mar 2022
Bird scoring Charlie off criminal
Hornswoggle New York Times 30 Jan 2022
Chessboard castle Newsday 24 Jan 2022
Castle on a chessboard Newsday 18 Jan 2022
Knight's neighbor on a chessboard
Castle, in chess
Swindle LA Times Daily 19 Dec 2021
Chess piece
Chess piece The Guardian Quick 22 Nov 2021
Cheat man most removed in rank from king or queen
Castle, on a chess board
It begins in the corner Wall Street Journal 06 Nov 2021
Bird man
Man in the corner Wall Street Journal 18 Sep 2021
Corner chess piece New York Times 13 Sep 2021
Bird; chess piece The Telegraph Quick 09 Aug 2021
Chess piece in the corner Family Time 13 Jun 2021
Chess piece Newsday 06 Jun 2021
Corner chess piece
Castle, on a chessboard
Case having been dismissed, criminals cheat at cards
Corner piece LA Times Daily 08 May 2021
Corner piece The Washington Post 08 May 2021
Castle Eugene Sheffer 04 May 2021
Corner chess piece
Swindle The Guardian Speedy 18 Apr 2021
Chess piece The Times Concise 06 Apr 2021
Piece on a chess board Family Time 08 Mar 2021
Corner chess piece
Men bowled over by fine bird …
Piece next to a knight on a chessboard The Guardian Speedy 21 Feb 2021
Board member Newsday 20 Feb 2021
Chess "castle"
Castle alias Newsday 27 Nov 2020
Chess piece; bird The Telegraph Quick 23 Nov 2020
Knight neighbor The Washington Post 11 Nov 2020
Knight neighbor LA Times Daily 11 Nov 2020
Starting piece on a1 or h8, say New York Times 08 Nov 2020
Corner piece in chess
Chess piece The Sun Two Speed 19 Oct 2020
Bird in castle The Sun Two Speed 19 Oct 2020
You'll see this man, initially cornered in board meeting, rip off flier The Telegraph Toughie 09 Oct 2020
. Criminal's caught out in scam
A chessman The Telegraph Quick 11 Aug 2020
Chess piece USA Today 04 Aug 2020
Bird heading off from stream
Corner piece on a chessboard Family Time 14 Jun 2020
A flyer's fleece The Telegraph Cryptic 27 May 2020
Piece that starts next to a knight The Washington Post 18 May 2020
Piece that starts next to a knight LA Times Daily 18 May 2020
Swindle New York Times 25 Apr 2020
Informal jumper: knitter's first piece
Chess piece Canadiana 23 Dec 2019
Certain chess piece Family Time 22 Dec 2019
Figure in a corner
Figure in a corner New York Times 21 Dec 2019
Fleece jumper, the most common in Keswick?
Corner chess piece USA Today 02 Dec 2019
Castle where villain guillotined The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Nov 2019
Bird The Telegraph Quick 22 Nov 2019
Fleece New York Times 17 Nov 2019
Fleece
White castle, perhaps The Washington Post Sunday 17 Nov 2019
Chess "castle" Universal 16 Oct 2019
Chess piece Premier Sunday 29 Sep 2019
Chess piece involved in castling The Washington Post 24 Sep 2019
Chess piece involved in castling LA Times Daily 24 Sep 2019
Part of a king's guard New York Times 18 Aug 2019
Crow's cousin USA Today 10 Aug 2019
King abdicating crown seized castle
It starts in the corner Wall Street Journal 25 Jul 2019
Knight neighbor Universal 10 Jun 2019
King follows Australian animal/bird
Piece on a1 New York Times 02 Jun 2019
Knight's neighbor USA Today 21 May 2019
Do bird The Telegraph Toughie 15 May 2019
Five-point chess piece Universal 28 Apr 2019
Castle The Washington Post 01 Mar 2019
Castle LA Times Daily 01 Mar 2019
Man in game is cheat
Fleece or jumper with a bit of khaki?
Chess piece which can move horizontally or vertically through unoccupied squares
One of four in a chess set Universal 26 Jan 2019
Chess "castle"
Flimflam Newsday 11 Jan 2019
Knight's neighbor Wall Street Journal 08 Jan 2019
Knight's neighbor
Knight's neighbor
It starts in the corner
Crow's cousin
Corner chess piece
One of four in a chess set
Knight neighbor
Five-point chess piece
Chess "castle"
Piece on a1
Part of a king's guard
Chess piece involved in castling
Castle
Castle where felon's beheaded
Castle bird
Cheat? On board, he goes straight
Corner chess piece Newsday 23 Oct 2018
Castle The Telegraph Quick 22 Oct 2018
Knight's neighbor Newsday 07 Oct 2018
Chess piece one jumps over King The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Oct 2018
Piece on board for bird
Piece that begins on a corner square Wall Street Journal 28 Aug 2018
Con flier The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Aug 2018
Castle, to some
Chess piece that can't move diagonally The Washington Post 24 Jul 2018
Chess piece that can't move diagonally LA Times Daily 24 Jul 2018
Piece on board for bird
Castle New York Times 12 Jun 2018
End piece? Wall Street Journal 02 Jun 2018
Flyer's fleece The Telegraph Cryptic 30 May 2018
Man in the corner Wall Street Journal 24 May 2018
Piece also called a castle USA Today 14 May 2018
Chess piece whose name possibly derives from a Persian word meaning “chariot” The Times Specialist Sunday 15 Apr 2018
Corner piece
End piece?
Piece also called a castle
Castle
Man in the corner
Piece that begins on a corner square
Swindle
Chess piece that can't move diagonally
Chess piece Eugene Sheffer 01 Dec 2017
Corner chess piece Universal 30 Nov 2017
Bird on board?
Chess castle Thomas Joseph 15 Nov 2017
Sell a pup to bird
Piece for Magnus Carlsen Jonesin 24 Oct 2017
Corner chess piece
Jumper cut at back end — rip off!
While talking, fold fleece The Telegraph Toughie 01 Sep 2017
Castle on a square Newsday 27 Aug 2017
Corner piece in chess
Castle of Otranto's walls besieged by kings
Hoodwink Newsday 03 Aug 2017
Bird takes cap off swindler
One that can only go straight New York Times 15 Jul 2017
One of four on board is cheat The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Jun 2017
Man on board, occupant of crow's-nest?
Piece English poet neither started nor finished
Pull a swindle on USA Today 16 May 2017
Piece involved in castling USA Today 15 May 2017
Knight's neighbor, on a chessboard
Corner chess piece informally called the castle
Black bird in castle
Chess piece The Guardian Speedy 26 Mar 2017
Corner piece USA Today 18 Mar 2017
Satisfactory after turning up gold chesspiece
Knight's partner on a board USA Today 06 Mar 2017
Swindle LA Times Daily 03 Mar 2017
Swindle The Washington Post 03 Mar 2017
Castle on a board Newsday 02 Mar 2017
Chess castle Newsday 22 Feb 2017
Pull a swindle on
One that can only go straight
Corner chess piece
Piece involved in castling
Knight's partner on a board
Corner piece
Corner-square piece USA Today 25 Dec 2016
Corner chess piece Family Time 11 Dec 2016
Corner piece Jonesin 06 Dec 2016
One sure to take the straight path The Washington Post 03 Dec 2016
Chess piece shaped like a castle The Washington Post 08 Nov 2016
Hornswoggle LA Times Daily 18 Sep 2016
Chessboard piece Newsday 11 Sep 2016
Cheat that's cornered by knight, initially
Swindle money out of man on board? The Times Cryptic 21 Jun 2016
Swindle money out of / man on board?
Cheat man on board initially trapped in corner The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Jun 2016
Flimflam Wall Street Journal 23 Apr 2016
Small jumper on short man's man
Hornswoggle The Washington Post 02 Mar 2016
A crow heading out from a small stream
Man‘s run over – fine
Chess piece Family Time 07 Feb 2016
Cheat LA Times Daily 31 Jan 2016
Corner chess piece The Washington Post 14 Jan 2016
Hornswoggle
Corner-square piece
Cheat
Castle on a board USA Today 07 Dec 2015
Part of a chess set USA Today 03 Dec 2015
Defraud; bird; chessman The Telegraph Quick 23 Nov 2015
Knight's neighbor Universal 18 Nov 2015
Starter on square a1, h1, a8 or h8 New York Times 24 Oct 2015
Chessboard castle Newsday 19 Oct 2015
Piece next to a knight New York Times 07 Oct 2015
Overcharge criminals having case dismissed The Times Cryptic 06 Oct 2015
Piece that begins in the corner Wall Street Journal 28 Sep 2015
Swindle Newsday 27 Sep 2015
Rip off piece starting in corner
Man as a nest-builder? The Times Cryptic 09 Jul 2015
Chess piece The Telegraph Quick 30 May 2015
Steal — castle The Guardian Quick 30 May 2015
Fleece Wall Street Journal 06 Mar 2015
Black bird The Times Concise 06 Feb 2015
Fleece man on board The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Jan 2015
Knight's neighbor LA Times Daily 15 Jan 2015
Knight's neighbor
Part of a chess set
Piece that begins in the corner
Swindle
Chess piece
Starter on square a1, h1, a8 or h8
Knight's neighbor
Piece next to a knight
Chessboard castle
Fleece
Castle on a board
Corner piece in chess
Rank-and-file man
Hornswoggle
Chessboard castle
Castle on a board
Corner chess piece
Chess corner piece
Chess piece
Chess piece
Certain chess piece
Run out Roger Bird
Knight's neighbor
Corner chess piece
Corner piece
Chess corner piece
Chess piece
Crow look-alike
Corner piece in chess
Corner chest piece
Certain crow
Castle, in chess
Castle in a board game
Chess piece that can't move diagonally
Corner chess piece
Chess piece
Fischer's corner piece
Hornswoggle
Chessman also called a castle
Castle, in chess
Castle
Rank-and-file chess piece
Swindle
Rank-and-file chess piece
Corner piece
Corner piece
Castle, in chess
Chess corner piece
Chess corner piece
Swindle
Piece that starts in the corner
Fleece
Hornswoggle
Corner chess piece
Piece that starts a chess game on square a1
One in Kasparov's corner
It might threaten the king
Corner chesspiece
Chess castle
Flimflam
One stuck in a corner
One stuck in a corner
King and queen's attacker, at times
Knight's neighbor
Corner man
Piece that moves orthogonally
Piece on all four corners in 7-Down
Castle, in chess
Castle you can handle
Pawn taker, sometimes
Fischer's castle
Pawn taker, perhaps
Knight's neighbor
Rank-and-file mover?
Chess castle
Knight neighbor at the start of a chess game
Rank-and-file mover?
Castling requirement
Cheat
It starts in the corner square
Castle
Kasparov's piece
Chess corner piece
One of Deep Blue's men
Chess piece
Man in a corner
Corner chesspiece
One that's cornered in chess?
Mobile castle
Man in the corner
He guards the corner of the chessboard
Chess piece
Castling piece
Rip off
Corner piece
Corner piece
Movable castle
He's on board and can go straight
Boris Spassky's corner man
Hoodwink
Chess piece
Castle-shaped chess piece
Piece on a corner square
Piece on a corner square
Chess castle
Swindle
Corner piece
Straight mover, in chess
Corner piece
It's often forked by a knight
It's in Kasparov's corner
Fleece
Piece for Kasparov
Versification
Orthogonally moving piece
Kasparov's corner man
Hornswoggle
Swindle
Karpov's castle
Castle of play
Chesspiece
Next to a knight
Castle
Pawn taker
Castle, in chess
Chessman
Chess castle
Dupe
Defraud
Bamboozle
Chess piece
Old World bird
It castles with a king
Castle for Kasparov
Crow
Karpov's castle
Castle on a square
Castle for Fischer
Fischer's castle
Cheat
Castle in chess
Chessman
Knight's companion
Crow's cousin
Chess piece.
Corvine bird.
Old World bird.
Chessman.
Crow's cousin.
Bird.
Castle, in chess.
Crow.
Black bird.
European bird.
Black European crow.
Piece used in chess.
A castle, in chess.
Chess castle.
Swindle.
Rank-and-file chess piece
Castling piece
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