Rookery

Word ROOKERY
Character 7
Hyphenation rook er y
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Rookery"

What do we mean by rookery?

A place where large numbers of rooks or certain seabirds or marine animals, such as penguins or seals, nest or breed. noun

A colony of such animals. noun

A crowded and dilapidated tenement or area. noun

A place where rooks congregate to breed. noun

The rooks that breed in a rookery, collectively. noun

A place where birds or other animals resort in great numbers to breed. noun

A cluster of mean tenements inhabited by people of the lowest class; a resort of thieves, tramps, ruffians, and the like. noun

A brothel. noun

A disturbance; a row. noun

The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. noun

A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc. noun

The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals. noun

A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings. noun

A brothel. noun

A colony of breeding birds or other animals. noun

A crowded tenement. noun

A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city. noun

A breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) noun

A colony of breeding birds or other animals.

A crowded tenement.

A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.

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The word "rookery" in example sentences

Few things are so unmusical as the voices of rooks, yet a home with a rookery is a very peaceful place. ❋ Unknown (1917)

The young take to the water early in the autumn and the rookery is deserted about that time, the last to leave being the old birds who stay behind to moult. ❋ Unknown (1910)

When Adah learned that Alice and I had actually bought a place at last she fairly wept for joy, and she excitedly produced her creased and worn copy of "The National Architect" and besought us to remodel the old Schmittheimer "rookery" -- that is what she dared to call it -- into a villa! ❋ Eugene Field (1872)

They have this default expression, like they're expecting to hear any minute that a tanker has gone aground and spilled a half million tons of crude oil into a penguin rookery. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It was called a rookery, one of many in London, but this was as foul a rookery as any the city could boast. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1986)

Some were sent out to steal pieces of iron, brass, copper, and old junk; and these Hag Zogbaum would sell or give to the man who kept the junk-shop in Stanton street, known as the rookery at the corner. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Another feature in connexion with the rookery is the presence of what may be called unattached bulls, which lie around at a little distance from the cows, and well apart, forming a regular ring through which any cow wishing to desert her pup or leave the rookery before the proper time has very little chance of passing, as one of these grips her firmly with his powerful flipper and stays her progress. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)

The site of their rookery is a stony flat about a hundred yards from the water, and here are collected between five and six thousand -- all that remain on the island. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)

Nor must I avoid mentioning what, I grieve to say, rather derogates from the grave and honourable character of these ancient gentlefolk, that, during the architectural season, they are subject to great dissensions among themselves; that they make no scruple to defraud and plunder each other; and that sometimes the rookery is a scene of hideous brawl and commotion, in consequence of some delinquency of the kind. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

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 provinces in the squire's rural domains. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

Nor must I avoid mentioning what, I grieve to say, rather derogates from the grave and honourable character of these ancient gentlefolk; that, during the architectural season, they are subject to great dissensions among themselves; that they make no scruple to defraud and plunder each other; and that sometimes the rookery is a scene of hideous brawl and commotion, in consequence of some delinquency of the kind. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

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 provinces in the Squire's rural domains. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

The birds had kept up an endless chatter, croaking, or rather barking, just like a number of dogs quarrelling, in all manner of keys, as they bustled in and out of the "rookery" they had established in the arm of the cliff; and Fritz and Eric had been much diverted by their movements, particularly when the feathered colonists came out of the water from their fishing excursions and proceeded towards their nests. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Following it along for perhaps thirty yards, we emerge upon a scene of almost indescribable squalor -- a scene that instantly suggests an overcrowded "rookery" in the tenement-house slums of New York. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)

The multitude of birds and their prodigious fecundity inspired the thought that the "rookery" for the whole breadth of the ❋ Unknown (1887)

The seal-oxen, rendered lean by three months absolute fasting, by degrees leave the "rookery," which is taken possession of by the sea-cows, the young, and a number of young males, that have not ventured to the place before. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

The rookery was a place no one went if they didn’t have to. ❋ MELANIE GEORGE (2004)

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