ROOK

• (noun) common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

  synonyms : corvus frugilegus

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

  synonyms : castle

• (verb) 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"

  synonyms : bunco , con , defraud , diddle , gip , goldbrick , gyp , hornswoggle , mulct , nobble , scam , short-change , swindle , victimize

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