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Definition of Rookery

Rookery
Rookery Rook"er*y, n.; pl. Rookeries. 1. The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. --Tennyson. 2. A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc. 3. The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals. 4. A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings. 5. A brothel. [Low]

Meaning of Rookery from wikipedia

- Look up rookery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rookery is a colony breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals...
- A rookery, in the colloquial English of the 18th and 19th centuries, was a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes...
- The Rookery Building is a historic office building located at 209 South LaSalle Street in the Chicago Loop. Completed by architects Daniel Burnham and...
- up rookery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rookery is a colony of breeding birds and some marine mammals. Rookery may also refer to: Rookery (slum)...
- Taylor Rookery Taylor Rookery is an emperor penguin breeding colony on the Mawson Coast of Mac. Robertson Land in East Antarctica. It is the larger of...
- the Rookery end. Construction finished in 2009. The Rookery is the "home end". It lends its name to the Watford fans' podcast, From The Rookery End....
- Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve protects 110,000 acres of coastal lands and waters at the northern end of the Ten Thousand Islands on...
- Rookery Nook may refer to: Rookery Nook (novel), a 1923 novel by Ben Travers Rookery Nook (play), a 1926 play by Travers based on his own novel Rookery...
- Rookery House, formerly Erdington Town Hall and, before that, Birches Green House, is a former muni****l building in Wilberforce Way in Erdington, a suburb...
- The Rookery Mound is an archaeological site near Everglades City, Florida. On November 5, 1996, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic...