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'''Rook''' may refer to:
==Bird==
*[[Rook (bird)]], a member of the passerine order of birds and the crow family
==Games==
*[[Rook (chess)]], a piece in the board game of chess
**[[Rook and pawn versus rook endgame]], chess endgame
**[[Rook's graph]], a graph that represents all legal moves of the rook piece on a chessboard
*[[Rook (card game)]], a trick-taking game played with a deck of ''Rook playing cards'', introduced in 1906 by Parker Brothers as an alternative to standard playing cards
==People==
*[[Alan Rook]], edited the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry, he was one of the Cairo poets
*[[Jean Rook]], British newspaper columnist
*[[Susan Rook]], journalist and photographer best known for her years as a CNN anchor for PrimeNews
==Other==
*''[[Rook (album)]]'', a 2008 album by Shearwater
*[[Rook (rocket)]], a British rocket, twenty five were launched between 1959 and 1972
*Rook (1874-1892) GWR no. 2176, one of 7 steam [[South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotives]], Raven class
*[[Montes Rook]], a ring-shaped mountain range that lies along the western limb of the Moon
*The [[Rook (comics)]], a time-traveling comic book character whose adventures were chronicled in various issues of Eerie magazine
*[[Rook (piercing)]], a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear
*[[The Edge Chronicles: Rook Barkwater Saga]], a saga in The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
*[[Rook Barkwater]], a fictional character in the children's book series The Edge Chronicles
*The Rook, a 1940s era pulp adventure hero, is the title character in a series of novellas and short stories by author [[Barry Reese]]
*[[Rook (Transformers)]], a fictional Transformers character
==See also==
*[[Rooks]] (disambiguation page)
*[[Rookery]], an animal breeding colony
*[[Rookery (slum)]], a slang expression for a city slum
*[[Rookie]], (mainly in North American usage), a person who is relatively new to an activity
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