To squat, like a bird on its nest or a beast crouching; crouch down; cower; hence, to huddle together; lie close, as sheep in a fold.The furies made the bride-groomes bed, and on the house did ruckeA cursed owle, the messenger of ill successe and lucke.To perch; seat, as a bird when roosting: used reflexively.n. A fold, crease, or pucker in the material of a garment, resulting from faults in the making.n. In printing, a crease or wrinkle made in a sheet of paper in passing from the feed-board to impression.To wrinkle; crease; pucker: usually with up: as, to ruck up cloth; to ruck up a silk skirt.To ruffle the temper of; annoy; vex: followed by up.To become creased and wrinkled; draw up in wrinkles or puckers: as, this stuff rucks easily.To be ruffled in temper; be annoyed, vexed, or excited: followed by up.n. Same as rick.n. A vague unit of volume, a stack, about 5¾ cubic yards of bark.n. A crowd or throng; especially, a closely packed and indiscriminate crowd or mass of persons or things; a jam; a press.n. The common run of persons or things; the commonplace multitude, as contrasted with the distinguished or successful few: specifically said of the defeated horses in a race.n. Trash; rubbish; nonsense.To gather together into heaps.n. A small heifer.n. A rut in a road.n. Same as roc.