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

rook8 rooked11 rooking12

Words that contain ROOKS

brooks12 crooks12 drooks11 donnybrooks21

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.

Similar words containing ROOK without suffix s

rook8 brook11 crook11 drook10 rooky12 brooks12 crooks12 drooks11 rooked11 rookie10 strook10 abrooke13 brooked14 brookie13 crooked14 crooker13 drooked13 drookit12 rookery14 rookier11 rookies11 rooking12 rookish14 strooke11 abrooked15 abrookes14 brookies14 brooking15 brookite14 brooklet14 crookery17 crookest14 crooking15 drooking14 rookiest12 strooken12 strookes12 abrooking16 brookable17 brookites15 brooklets15 brooklike19 brooklime17 brookweed19 crookback23 crookeder16 crookedly19 crookneck21 drookings15 rookeries13 brooklimes18 brookweeds20 crookbacks24 crookedest17 crookeries16 crooknecks22 donnybrook20 crookbacked26 crookedness18 donnybrooks21 overstrooke18 crookednesses20

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