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Definition of Rookery
1. Noun. A breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks).
Definition of Rookery
1. n. The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
Definition of Rookery
1. Noun. A colony of breeding birds or other animals. ¹
2. Noun. A crowded tenement. ¹
3. Noun. (British) a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rookery
1. a colony of rooks (European crows) [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rookery
Literary usage of Rookery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"rookery. Seals, male, female, and young rookery. Reef rookery line 4.016 feet of
вел margin, with 150 (Vet of average depth, making ground 1'or ..."
2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, David Starr Jordan, United States Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, (1898)
"Little Hast rookery.—There is here a decrease and a shrinkage in area, indicated
to some extent ... Zapadnie rookery.—The change here is shown on the chart. ..."
3. Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist: By Frank M. Chapman by Frank Michler Chapman (1908)
"CUTHBERT rookery Cuthbert rookery is probably the last rookery in Florida at ...
This rookery is situated in what the maps term the "Great Mangrove Swamp" ..."
4. The Practice of the Law in All Its Departments: With a View of Rights by Joseph Chitty (1833)
"rookery, neither the common nor the statute law contains any particular, regulation
relating to the same, other than the general law against trespass ..."
5. Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1886)
"... reproduction the following presentation of the actual number of seals massed
upon St. Paul is a fair one: " Reef rookery " has 4016 feet of sea-margin, ..."
6. Our Arctic Province, Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1906)
"vey of all these great areas of reproduction the following presentation of the
actual number of seals massed upon St. Paul is a fair one: " Reef rookery ..."
7. The Architecture of Birds by James Rennie (1833)
"Rooks appear to be fond of the metropolis, for besides the rookery in ... f Mr
Hone, in his ' Every-Day Book/ has an anecdote relating to another rookery on ..."
8. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1851)
"IN a grove of tall oaks and beeches, that crowns a terrace-walk, just on the
skirts of the garden, is an ancient rookery; which is one of the most important ..."
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