Meaning

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

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

verb deprive of by deceit

origin* Inherited from Middle English rok, roke, from Old English hrōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hrōk, from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Old Norse hrókr, Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), from Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarian кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ…

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