roost1

 
Pronunciation: /ruːst/

noun

  • a place where birds regularly settle or congregate to rest at night, or where bats congregate to rest in the day: birds were hurrying to their evening roosts

verb

[no object]
  • (of a bird or bat) settle or congregate for rest or sleep: migrating martins and swallows were settling to roost

Phrases

come home to roost

(of an action in the past) have an unexpected adverse consequence for the person responsible: for the overextended borrowers, the chickens have come home to roost
[from the proverb ‘curses, like chickens, come home to roost’]

Origin:

Old English hrōst, related to Dutch roest; of unknown ultimate origin