- Look up
rook or
rooks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Rook or
rooks may
refer to:
Rook (chess), a
piece in
chess that
moves horizontally and vertically...
- The
rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a
piece in the game of chess. It may move any
number of
squares horizontally or
vertically without jumping, and it may capture...
- The
rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a
member of the
family Corvidae in the p****erine
order of birds. It is
found in the Palearctic, its
range extending from...
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Rook is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include: Ada
Rook,
Canadian musician Alan
Rook (1909-1990),
editor of the 1936
issue of New Oxford...
- seconds—about 20
hours faster than the
previous record. He
received the call sign "
Rook"
during fighter jet training. In
February 2021,
Isaacman announced he would...
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Rook is the name of a
British rocket.
Twenty five
Rook rockets were
launched between 1959 and 1972. The
launches took
place from
Aberporth in
Wales and...
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rook on the same rank and then
moving the
rook to the
square that the king p****ed over.
Castling is
permitted only if
neither the king nor the
rook has...
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rook to
treat a half-open file as if it were an open file, or a
closed file as if it were half-open.
rook pawn Or
rook's pawn. A pawn on the
rook's file...
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Rook shooting was a
previously po****r
sport in the
United Kingdom, in
which young rooks were shot from tree branches,
often using purpose-built rifles...
- The
rook rifle,
originally called the
rook and
rabbit rifle, is an
obsolete English single-shot
small calibre rifle intended for
shooting small game, particularly...
