different between rookery vs crookery

English

rook +? -ery, 1725.

rookery (plural rookeries)

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

crook +? -ery

crookery (countable and uncountable, plural crookeries)

The activities of crooks; crime.
- 1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure
  It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.
- 2008, Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America
  What the people never knew at the time was the scale and audacity of the crookeries of Harding's advisers. In 1923 the Senate investigated 'irregularities' in the Veterans' Bureau. It had been defrauded of tidy sums by its chief […]

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