rochus

1 rochus v. 1 rocha

2 rochus [ME rok, roche, AN roc, Ar. rukhkh < Pers.], rook, castle (in chess); b (transf.); c (w. play on personal name of Saracen in seventh crusade). bifrons rochus ordinetur in extrema tabula / ‥ / rochus rochum interimit se sequenter jugulans (Vers. Wint.) Hist. Chess 515; proximus alphicus est: illum post huc quoque miles / fine sedet rochus (Vers. Corpus) Ib. 519; ~us expeditissimum militem in re militari representans, qui ab antiquis Janus biceps dictus est, unde et duobus capitibus munitur, nunquam cursum obliquare dignatur, semper directum iter observans Neckam NR II 184; unus dicitur rex, alter regina, tertius ~us, quartus miles, quintus alfinus, sextus pedinus J. Waleys Schak. 463; ~us est justiciarius perambulans totam terram, directa tamen linea, ita quod nichil oblique capiat Id. Commun. I 10. 7; quartus vero est ~us qui vadit omnibus modis in longum latum et capit quicquid invenit G. Roman. 676; rocus, homo scacci, a roke WW; a roke, rocus CathA.  b est Adam de Strate in scaccario per escheke mat. / sumitur ille rocus nec minor ille locus (Passio Justic.) State Tri. Ed. I 98.  c s1250 Rokum nostrum, qui inter nos maximus et post Soldanum secundus M. Par. Maj. V 141; ipse qui occubuit filius erat Rochi nomine Melkadin Ib. 158; rex dictus Rocus cadit, Eschec dicitur urbi, / Mathque simul peditum vis equitumque perit Garl. Tri. Eccl. 133.