Rooks is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ROOKS in dictionary:

VERB:
• ROOK, to swindle
• defraud, overcharge, or swindle (someone)
NOUN:
• a gregarious Eurasian crow with black plumage and a bare face, nesting in colonies in treetops.
• a chess piece, typically with its top in the shape of a battlement, that can move in any direction along a rank or file on which it stands. Each player starts the game with two rooks at opposite ends of the first rank.

Words related to ROOKS

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How to use ROOKS in a sentence

• The accuracy with which some people can kill rooks with a rifle is very remarkable.
• One would be thankful to die such an instantaneous death as these young rooks.
• I feigned it sometimes, as the fox makes believe to be dead in order to secure the rooks.
• The rooks stream home from distant fields, and discuss the affairs of the race with cheerful clamour in the depth of the wood.
• The sunshine shone bright, but with a chastened heat, the squirrels scrambled up the oaks, and high in the blue air the rooks pursued their path.
• Everywhere he saw rooks gaping on the low walls that divided the fields.
• The rooks begin a series of robberies as soon as the fruit is ripe, and carry them on with an adroitness that would be amusing but for the result.
• Captain Sedgewick rang a bell hanging by the side of one of these gates, whereat there arose a shrill peal that set the rooks screaming in the tall elms overhead.
• To complete the sketch, indicate the wings of the blown rooks on the sullen sky.
• Rooks appear to be peculiarly partial to building their nests in the vicinity of the residence of man.
• Since February last, notwithstanding a vigilant watch, the rooks have stolen sets of potatoes from a considerable breadth of ground at Widford Hall.
• Shooting straight up from the beds of hyacinths, tall elms met overhead, and the rooks kept up a clamour that dulled the senses without causing anything like irritation.
• The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
• Placing the eight rooks on any row or file obviously will have the same effect.
• Sooner or later one of the rooks must fall, unless, of course, both players commit the absurdity of not trying to win.
• Only 8 queens or 8 rooks can be placed on the board without attack, while the greatest number of bishops is 14, and of knights 32.
• Supposing the diagram to represent the positions of the rooks at the start, then, if Black played first, White might have placed his rook at A and won next move.
• It was a relief to think how comfortable and unconcerned the rooks were in their nests with their children about them in bed.
• The rooks awakening, flew one after another in silence over the earth.
• Heavily homeward now the last rooks go, And dull-eyed stars stare from the skies.
• A big flight of rooks, blue-black against the ethereal blue of the distance, winged their way slowly homeward to the long avenue of dark trees leading to a farm in the valley.
• He was by this time at the corner of the green, from which the path ran across the fields in which he had scared rooks as a boy.
• The rooks were now astir, and flew, one after the other, in an irregular line eastwards black against the sky.

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