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Textual thesaurus for "rook"

(noun) Corvus frugilegus

common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow


(noun) castle

(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard


(verb) hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, con, diddle, defraud, swindle, mulct, nobble, victimize

deprive of by deceit

He swindled me out of my inheritance; She defrauded the customers who trusted her; the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change