simple past tense and past participle of rook

Obsolete spelling of rook

A surname.

A surname.

plural of Rooke

plural of rook's pawn

(chess) A pawn on the rook's file; i.e., the a-file or h-file.

plural of rook rifle

(historical) An English single-shot dropping block or break-action small-calibre rifle for shooting rooks and rabbits.

(chess) A tactic in which a rook is moved off the back rank to a position past its pawns.