Rook
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[edit] Bird
- Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a member of the crow family
[edit] Games
- Rook (chess) or castle, a piece in the board game of chess
- Rook (card game), a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards
[edit] People
- Alan Rook, editor of the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry, one of the Cairo poets
- Jean Rook (1931–1991), British newspaper columnist
- Jerry Rook (born 1943), American former professional basketball player
- Susan Rook, journalist and photographer
- Albert Harold Rooks (1891–1942), Captain in U.S. Navy, World War II Medal of Honor recipient
[edit] Places
- Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon
- Rooks County, Kansas
- Rooks Creek, Illinois
[edit] Culture
- Rook (band), alternative rock band (Lyman Smith, Mark Tillman, Eric Koller)
- Rook (album), 2008 album by Shearwater
- The Dirty Rooks, American rock band
- The Rook, the title character in a 1940s series of stories by Barry Reese
- Rook (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character
- Rook (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Rook (comics), comic book character from Eerie magazine
- Rooks (band), American extreme metal band from Northbrook, Illinois
- The Rook (novel), a contemporary fantasy novel by Daniel O'Malley
[edit] Technology
- Rook (rocket), a British rocket launched between 1959 and 1972
- "Rook", a Russian nickname for the Sukhoi Su-25 jet aircraft
- USS Rooks (DD-804) (1944–1962), destroyer, World War II and Korea
- Rook (1874–1892), GWR no. 2176, one of seven steam South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotives, Raven class
[edit] Other
- Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear
[edit] See also
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