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Keep The Piece Crossword Clue

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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

21%8 To keep away or keep at bay
verb

• prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off

21%8 If you have nine pencils and you keep three of them, what fraction of the pencils do you keep?
noun

• one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

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