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 Rook’s Hill (Lavant, Chichester),Rooky Wood (The). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Rook’ery (3 syl.).
 
Any low neighbourhood frequented by thieves and vagabonds. A person fleeced or liable to be fleeced is a pigeon, but those who prey upon these “gulls” are called rooks.   1
        “The demolition of rookeries has not proved an efficient remedy for overcrowding.”—A. Egmont Hake: Free Trade in Capital, chap. xv.
 


 Rook’s Hill (Lavant, Chichester),Rooky Wood (The). 

 
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