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Roost

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Gone to roost. Gone to bed. (Anglo-Saxon, hrost.)

“The chough and crow to roost are gone.” Glee (words by Joanna Baillie, music by Bishop).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ronyon or Ronion
Rood Lane (London)
Rood-loft (The)
Roodselken
Rook (A)
Rook’s Hill (Lavant, Chichester)
Rookery
Rooky Wood (The)
Room
Roost
Roost
Rope
Rope
Rope
Rope-dancer (The)
Rope-dancers
Rope-walk [barristers slang]
Ropes
Ropes
Ropes
Roper