Roost is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ROOST in dictionary:

VERB:
• to prepare for sleep by perching
• (of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep
• See Roust, v. t.
• To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
• Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
• sit, as on a branch
• settle down or stay, as if on a roost
• perch
NOUN:
• a place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day
• (in the Orkneys and Shetlands) a tidal race.
• perch for fowls
• Roast.
• The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
• A collection of fowls roosting together.
• a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
• a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to settle down for rest or sleep

Words related to ROOST

roosted8 roosting9 roosts6

Words that contain ROOST

roosts6 roosted8 rooster7 unroost7 roosters8 roosting9 unroosts8 troostite9 unroosted10 troostites10 unroosting11

How to use ROOST in a sentence

• The woman was big, bigger than most women who rule the roost and do the work in haunts where work calls for muscle and a good head behind it.
• The fowls on the roost were mere white and blue puffs of feathers.
• The shades of evening having closed in upon me, I retired to roost.
• The fowls went to their roost, as on the previous night, and, after our fatigue, we were all soon in a profound sleep.
• These are rolled up, however, in order to afford the mosquitoes, who are covering the show most conscientiously, room to roost on.
• As early as possible train them to roost high, so as to be out of danger at night.
• The man at the helm and the quarter-master being the only men on deck, and I being gone to roost, all seemed easy enough, but Providence willed it otherwise.
• For the accommodation of this multitude were cities of nest houses, roost houses, and the like.
• But schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, like chickens and curses, come home to roost.
• A roost made of two by four timbers set on edge with the sharp corners rounded off is better than a round perch.
• Under the roost build a movable board or shelf which may easily be taken out and cleaned.
• Miss Brown announced her intention of retiring to roost.
• City people laugh at country people for beating the chickens to roost.
• Eagles when they roost are heavy-lidded and clumsy.
• When opposite, he saw it was a roost for some sort of water fowl.
• In some parts of the South there were men as ready to murder a negro who tried to get an office as to kill a fox they found prowling about a hen roost.
• They declared that they always remembered so many things to say as soon as they went to roost, and that if they waited until morning they might forget more than half.
• Each night we had a prolonged battle, but he never gave in for one instant until he could roost on my outstretched finger or just under my chin.
• It was a well-known pigeon roost, but the birds went to other winter feeding grounds, except during years when there was a plentiful sweet mast.
• They thought nothing of spending a whole night going from one turkey roost to another, if half a dozen fine birds were the reward.
• The happy runaways to Nebraska, Jack and I to the little roost we left behind in Kentucky.
• Finally one night after he had killed many in one town, the people decided to watch him, and they saw him go to roost with the chickens.
• I looked all around and could see no place where they could roost except a little bunch of timber about a quarter of a mile from where they were feeding.
• In the evening, vast numbers of white pigeons came over from the mainland to roost, and of course, all the fowling-pieces were put in requisition.
• Till then he who crows loudest will rule the roost.

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