What is a rook?

Question

In many questions I have seen this word Many times and the post seem to be from the United Kingdom.Will someone there please enlighten me?

Answer 1

its a chess piece

Answer 2

The Rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the passerine order of birds and the crow family. Originally named by Linnaeus in 1758, the species name frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering".

This species is similar in size (45–47 cm in length) or slightly smaller than the Carrion Crow with black feathers often showing a blue or bluish-purple sheen in bright sunlight. The feathers on the head, neck and shoulders are particularly dense and silky. The legs and feet are black and the bill grey-black.

Rooks are distinguished from similar members of the crow family by the bare grey-white skin around the base of the adult's bill in front of the eyes. The feathering around the legs also look shaggier and laxer than the congeneric Carrion Crow. The juvenile is superficially more similar to the Crow because it lacks the bare patch at the base of the bill, but it loses the facial feathers after about six months

Though resident in Great Britain and much of north and central Europe, vagrant to Iceland and northern Scandinavia, it also occurs as an eastern race in Asia where it differs in being very slightly smaller on average, and having a somewhat more fully feathered face. In the north of its range the species has a tendency to move south during autumn though more southern populations are apt to range sporadically also. The species has been introduced to New Zealand, with several hundred birds being released there from 1862-1874, though today their range is very localised.Here the species is an agricultural pest and it is being eradicated

Answer 3

It is a type of chess piece.

Answer 4

Actually there are many types of rooks:

A rook is a bird that is a member of the passerine order of birds and the crow family.

A rook is a piece in the strategy board game of chess. Each player starts with two rooks, one in each of the corners nearest their own side. The rook moves horizontally or vertically, forward or back, through any number of unoccupied squares, as shown in the diagram below. Like other pieces, it captures by occupying the square on which an enemy piece stands. The rook also participates, along with the king, in a special move called castling.

Answer 5

Its also a kinda bird like a crow or raven- it belongs to that family of birds

Answer 6

sometimes people call a rook a castle when playing chess because of its' shape.....there is a chess move that is known as castling this is done to protect the king.

Answer 7

Here's some definitions:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/r...

In my experience it is a piercing in a fold of cartilage in your ear, see here:

http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/01-ear/roo...

Answer 8

An Old World bird (Corvus frugilegus) that resembles the North American crow and nests in colonies near the tops of trees.

There is a card game called Rook that features a likeness of the bird on the cards.  Also there is a game piece in chess that is referred to as the rook.

Answer 9

one type of rook is.... a member of the passerine order of birds and the crow family.

another type is...a British rocket, twenty five were launched between 1959 and 1972.  There is also a rook that is a card game.  Another rook is a castle. Another type of rook is A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.

Good Luck!

Answer 10

Rook :1. A large black bird similar to a crow.

             2. A Chess piece that can move along any number of squares in straight line parallel to the sides of the board.

             3. To cheat someone out of some money.

Answer 11

a bird, member of the crow family