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Definition of Rooking
1. rook [v] - See also: rook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rooking
Literary usage of Rooking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roxburghe Ballads by William Chappell (1874)
"All night she will sit smoaking, For roaring gallants looking ;' And those which
stay Are sure to pay ;— I doe not like such rooking, I owe my Hostesse ..."
2. Army Regulations by Confederate States of America War Dept, United States War Dept (1908)
"Transportation and expenses, 735, 737. «sing and rooking: Broken, lost, ...
Messing and rooking—Continued. Supervision company and general mess, 291. ..."
3. Adam Lindsay Gordon and His Friends in England and Australia by Edith Humphris, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1912)
"Gordon (in a letter to CP Walker written from Priory Street) alludes to " the
night-larks and capture of the rooking Mare, with the various exaggerated and ..."
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