rook
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7.1
- noun
- /rʊk/
- UK
:
grajo
- In the late afternoon, rooks scudded heavily from wintry branch to wintry branch, and the sun burned with a silvery whiteness.
Examples
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There were still the deep beech woods making groves beside the ploughlands and the rooks rising lazily as the plough came towards them.
Blog text (30) -
A glance back revealed the old cow hurrying down the road in the wrong direction, towards the town, as the rooks cawed and chuckled in the trees above.
Fiction book (1997) -
When my husband bought the house, he liked to think there were rooks about it.
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The rooks burst from the trees.
Fiction book (1997) -
The rooks had settled into their nests.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her call is like a rook's, shrill, persistent.
Fiction book (1993) -
The sound disturbed three rooks in the tree overhead, who flapped off, full of hoarse complaint.
Fiction book (1991) -
The sky reflects unsteadily there, white and heavy with clouds, traversed by the black cutout shapes of rooks.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the last light, huge rooks wearing gray patches on their wings like shawls flew from one bare tree to another, cawing their complaints about the human invasion.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the field, the rook strutted about, searching for insects to eat.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rook: The word rook for the bird comes from an old English word hrōc for the same black, crow-like bird, and they often live together in groups called a rookery, so think of many noisy black birds gathering in trees when you hear the word.