Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ROOKERY

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Definitions of ROOKERY

1. A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
2. (by extension) A crowded tenement.
3. (British, historical, by extension) A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
4. (military, slang, obsolete) That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.

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Examples of Using ROOKERY in a Sentence

• Mawson Station is an active base for scientific research programs including an underground cosmic ray detector, various long-term meteorological aeronomy and geomagnetic studies, as well as ongoing conservation biology studies, in particular of nearby Auster rookery, a breeding ground for emperor penguins and Adélie penguins.
• The oldest houses are The Old Rookery, Hollands Farm and Penfold, all of which probably date from the early 16th century when the hamlet thrived due to sheep farming.
• In addition, there are several outlying areas, including Pinhook Bog, in LaPorte County to the east; the Heron Rookery in Porter County, the center of the park; and the Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve and the Hobart Prairie Grove, both in Lake County, the western end of the park.
• Darwin's interest in the fertilisation of orchids led him to get a new heated greenhouse constructed under the supervision of John Horwood, the gardener of Mr Turnbull at The Rookery: this was completed in February 1863.
• After the ground was sold to developers, the club groundshared with East Thurrock United at their Rookery Hill ground in Corringham.
• During the next seven years there were ten more Aldwych farces; Travers wrote eight of them: Rookery Nook (1926), Thark (1927), Plunder (1928), A Cup of Kindness (1929), A Night Like This (1930), Turkey Time (1931), Dirty Work (1932), and A Bit of a Test (1933).
• The south east end of Streatham Common and The Rookery abut Norwood Grove within the London Borough of Croydon.
• It is a haulout area for California and Northern sealions and a birthing rookery for Harbour seals and it is also the most northerly birthing colony on the Pacific Coast of North America for the elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris.
• Sikes lives in Bethnal Green and later moves to the squalid rookery area of London then called Jacob's Island, east of present-day Shad Thames.
• The township of Mulmur comprises a number of villages and hamlets, including Airlie (partially), Banda (partially), Black Bank, Earnscliffe, Happy Valley, Honeywood, Kilgorie, Lavender (partially), Mansfield, Mulmur, Mulmur Corners (partially), Perm, Ponton Mills, Randwick, Rookery Creek, Rosemont (partially), Ruskview, Scarlet Hill, Slabtown, Stanton, Terra Nova, Violet Hill (partially), Whitfield, Conover, Henderson's Corners (partially), Hipson's Corners.
• The precise reason why Eddowes chose to relocate from Chelsea to the East End of London is unknown, although by 1881, she was living with a new partner, John Kelly; a fruit salesman whom she had met as both lodged at Cooney's common lodging-house at 55 Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields, at the centre of London's most notorious criminal rookery.
• In 1992 they were required to leave the ground in order to maintain senior status, and groundshared at East Thurrock United's Rookery Hill.
• Brought out that November by Henley, it details living conditions in the East End, including the permeation of violence into everyday life, in a barely fictionalised account of life in the Old Nichol Street Rookery.
• Bellow Island, a low gravel island covered by shrubs and located near the middle of Northport Bay, is owned by the Nature Conservancy; it is primarily known as a bird rookery, and is sometimes locally called Gull Island.
• Ogilvy has had an extensive career in the theatre playing leading roles in many London West End productions, including Design for Living, Happy Family, Three Sisters, Rookery Nook by Ben Travers, Run for Your Wife, The Millionairess by Shaw, The Waltz of the Toreadors, and others.
• The island is also known for coco de mer palms, giant takamaka trees, a large hawksbill turtle rookery and several bird species, such as the rare Seychelles black parrot Coracopis nigra barklyi, a parrot found only here and on Praslin.
• During the war, the Argentines also heavily mined Yorke Bay to the north of the airport and Surf / Rookery Bays to the south-east with minimum metal mines; under the presumption the British would attempt an amphibious landing on the east coast of East Falkland to quickly recapture both the airfield and Stanley in one fell swoop.
• There are several smaller woods and coppices, including Pitchkettle Wood, Rookery Wood, Bell Copse and Pond Wood.
• There are bluebells, goldilocks buttercup, anemones and early purple orchids and the woodland canopy hosts a noisy rookery.
• Filming locations included the Rookery Building (Ness' police headquarters), LaSalle Street, the DuSable Bridge, Chicago Cultural Center (the operahouse, the courthouse lobby, and the rooftop chase), the Blackstone Hotel (the mob banquet), Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica (the church), and Chicago Union Station (the railway shootout).

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