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ROOK
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German
German : nickname for someone with a peculiarity of the back, Middle High German rucke.German : topographic name from a southern field name denoting a slight dome-shaped elevation.German : from the personal names Ruck, Rück, short forms of Rüdiger (see Rudiger).English : variant spelling of Rook.
Boy/Male
English
From the Rook's Town; Fortress
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English
English : variant spelling of Rook.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : unexplained.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Rückert or Ruckert.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Raven
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English
English : patronymic from Rook 1.
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English
English : variant of Rocker.
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English
English : unexplained.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Love; Happiness; Light; If Any Other
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English
English : nickname from the bird (Old English hrÅc), most likely given to a person with very dark hair or a dark complexion or to someone with a raucous voice.English : some early examples, such as Robert of ye Rook (London 1318) and Henry del Rook (Staffordshire 1332), point clearly to a local name of some kind. The first of these could be from a house sign, the second may be a variant of Rock 1.German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with hrok, of uncertain origin; perhaps a cognate of 1 or from Middle High German rÅhen ‘to cry or yell (in battle)’ or Old High German ruoh ‘intent’.Perhaps an altered spelling of German Ruck.
Male
Norse
Old Norse name derived from the word hrókr, HRÓKR means "crow, rook."
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Raven's Fortress; From the Rook's Town; Fortress
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English
English : habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire and Somerset. The former was earlier Rockholt, and was so named from Old English hrÅc ‘rook’ (perhaps a byname) + holt ‘wood’. The second element of the Somerset place is probably (and more predictably) Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ (see Well).
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n.
A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.
n.
Mist; fog. See Roke.
n.
A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
imp. & p. p.
of Rook
n.
The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
v. i.
To squat; to ruck.
n.
A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
v. t. & i.
To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
v. i.
To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
n.
The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
n.
One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
n.
The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.
a.
Misty; gloomy.
n.
A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rook
n.
A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
n.
A brothel.
n.
A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
pl.
of Rookery
n.
A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.