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91. ( Hall i well.) The Butcherly execution of Tormentors, Rooks , and Rakeshames sold to lucre. Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. 4†. A simpleton; a gull; one liable to be cheated. An arrant rook , by this light, a capable cheating-stock; a man may carry him up and down by the ears like a pip. Chapman , May-Day, iii. 2. What! shall I have my son a Stager now?.. a Gull, a Rooke , to make suppers, and bee laughed at? kin. B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. 5. [Cf. crow2 , 6, crowbar .] A crowbar. Halli well . [Prov. Eng.] rook1 (rük), v. [ rook1 , n.] I. in trans. 1. To caw or croak as a crow or raven. 2. To cheat; defraud. [Scotch.] A band of rooking Officials, with cloke bagges full of Citations and Proce es, to be serv'd by a corporalty of griffon like Pro mooters and Apparitors. Milton , Reformation in Eng., i..