“I’VE BEEN ROOKED”.

“I’VE BEEN ROOKED”. Was the use of “to rook” to refer to fraud found in Shakespeare’s time? I checked the Online Etymology Dictionary, which has this entry:

“rook (v.)
“to defraud by cheating” (originally especially in a game), 1590s….”

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