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ROOKERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("rookery" is a kind of...):
breeding ground (a place where animals breed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rookery"):
heronry (a breeding ground for herons; a heron rookery)
Context examples:
From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. I lingered till the sun went down amongst the trees, and sank crimson and clear behind them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a seal-hunting boat, she replied, and you know perfectly well that if the men had escaped they would have been back to make their fortunes from the rookery.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Its grey front stood out well from the background of a rookery, whose cawing tenants were now on the wing: they flew over the lawn and grounds to alight in a great meadow, from which these were separated by a sunk fence, and where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks, at once explained the etymology of the mansion's designation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“I beg your pardon,” I said, or shouted, rather, in order to make myself heard above the roar of the rookery.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was only a foot and a half long, and in my superb ignorance I never dreamed that the club used ashore when raiding the rookeries measured four to five feet.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Coming from no man knew where in the illimitable Pacific, it was travelling north on its annual migration to the rookeries of Bering Sea.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“A rookery!” I cried.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“It just comes to me,” she said, “that Captain Larsen was telling me how the men raided the rookeries. They drive the seals, in small herds, a short distance inland before they kill them.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was confident that we should find a station in some one of the coves, for I knew that the rookeries of Bering Sea were thus guarded; but Maud advanced the theory—to prepare me for disappointment, I do believe, if disappointment were to come—that we had discovered an unknown rookery.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
