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Rooky Wood (The)

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Not the wood where rooks do congregate, but the misty or dark wood. The verb reek (to emit vapour) had the preterite roke, rook, or roak; hence Hamilton, in his Wallace, speaks of the “rooky mist.”

Light thickens, and the crow

Makes wing to the roaky wood.”


 

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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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Roncesvalles
Rondo
Rone
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