Ruck

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A multitude; a throng.
  • n. The undistinguished crowd or ordinary run of persons or things.
  • n. People who are followers, not leaders.
  • n. Sports A play in Rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball dropped by a tackled ball carrier, with each player attempting to gain possession of the ball by kicking it to a teammate.
  • n. Sports The mass of players during such a play. Also called loose scrum.
  • v. To make a fold in; crease.
  • verb-intransitive. To become creased.
  • n. A crease or pucker, as in cloth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football.
  • v. To crease or fold.
  • v. To become folded.
  • n. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A roc.
  • v. To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease.
  • n. A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
  • verb-intransitive. To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
  • n. A heap; a rick.
  • n. The common sort, whether persons or things.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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 rucke
  • A 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
  • v. become wrinkled or drawn together
  • n. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
  • Verb Form
    rucked    rucking    rucks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    throng    multitude    concourse    scrunch    wrinkle    crinkle    crisp    ruckle    scrunch up    crease   
    Cross Reference
    maul    scrum   
    Form
    rucked    rucking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    roc    crease    cower    squat    heap    rick    crowd    mob   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Buck    Canuck    Chuck    Duck    Gluck    Puck    amok    amuck    bruck    buck   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    coffee-stained    rength    corrugation    crinkle    spurge    fuell    raight    high-button    Draco    nagel