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noun • a large and stately mansion • a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack • (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard • interchanging the positions of the king and a rook verb • move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king | ||||
| 66% | 8 | Type of chess move where the king moves two squares towards the rook and the rook moves to the square next to the king | ||
noun • (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank • United States actor (1914-1998) • a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law • United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959) • United States jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835) | ||||
| 40% | 7 | Placed the king and rook together, in chess | ||
adjective satellite • having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | ||||
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