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Meanings of rook in inglês
Piece in standard shogi; promotes to dragon; moves any number of squares in an orthogonal direction.
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Usage of rook in inglês
1
And that word, like 'rook', has its origins in the word 'rock'.
2
Unlike the rook, crow and magpie mentioned the woodpigeon is good eating.
3
Obviously there must be a rook in every row and every column.
4
Up to yesterday I had never shot a rook in my life.
5
A rook was picked up and slammed down, taking Matthew's second knight.
6
Yet a few minutes more: he takes her rook and checks again.
7
The Bills were equally rude to the rook once the game began.
8
I found a rook on the library roof, though, she went on.
9
Its flight is heavy and slow, like that of an English rook.
10
And on b3, he'd have been in check to rook and king.
11
His last rook is before me now, as I pencil these lines.
12
No rook's path over the chessboard can exceed this number of moves.
13
Elfride grew flurried, and placed her queen on his remaining rook's file.
14
She would have been under threat by the white rook on b5.
15
The rook could, for example, have taken another black piece on b5.
16
Maybe, we said, the rook had captured another black piece on b5.
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United Kingdom
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