Rook (A)

A cheat. “To rook,” to cheat; “to rook a pigeon,” to fleece a greenhorn. Sometimes it simply means, to win from another at a game of chance or skill. (See Rookery.)

“‘My Lord Marquis,ʹ said the king, ‘you rooked me at piquet last night, for which disloyal deed thou shalt now atone, by giving a couple of pieces to this honest youth, and five to the girl.ʹ”—Sir Walter Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. xxx.