Crossword clues for ruck
ruck
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruck \Ruck\, n.
A roc. [Obs. or prov. Eng.]
--Drayton.
Ruck \Ruck\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rucked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rucking.] [Icel hrukkast to wrinkle, hrukka wrinkle, fold.]
To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to
ruck up a carpet.
--Smart.
Ruck \Ruck\, n. [Icel. hrukka. Cf. Ruck, v. t.] A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
Ruck \Ruck\, v. i. [Cf. Dan. ruge to brood, to hatch.]
To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on
eggs. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Gower. South.
The sheep that rouketh in the fold.
--Chaucer.
Ruck \Ruck\, n. [Cf. Ruck.]
A heap; a rick. [Prov Eng. & Scot.]
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The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race. [Colloq.]
The ruck in society as a whole.
--Lond. Sat. Rev.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. (from 16th c.) 2 (context Australian Rules Football English) Contesting a bounce or ball up; used appositionally in "ruck contest". Rucks also used collectively either of ruckmen or of ruckmen and ruck rovers, and occasionally used in place of "followers" (including rovers too). (from 19th c.) 3 (context rugby union English) The situation formed when a runner is brought to ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum. (from 20th c.) 4 The common mass (term: of) people or things; the ordinary ranks. (from 19th c.) vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football. 2 (context transitive English) To contest the possession of the ball in a game of Rugby. Etymology 2
n. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To crease or fold. 2 (context intransitive English) To become folded. Etymology 3
vb. (context UK dialect obsolete English) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs. Etymology 4
n. (obsolete form of roc English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Ruck may refer to;
- Ruck (rugby union), a contesting for the ball in Rugby Union from a grounded player
- Ruckman (Australian rules football), an aerial contest in Australian rules football between rival ruckmen]
- Ruck (rugby league), the area surrounding a tackled player in rugby league football
- short for Rucksack
It may also refer to certain people:
- Sean Price, American rapper who went by the name Ruck as a member of Heltah Skeltah
- Alan Ruck (born 1956), American actor
- Berta Ruck (1878–1978), British writer of short stories and romance novels
- Calvin Ruck (1925–2004), Canadian Senator and author
- Carl A. P. Ruck (born 1935), American professor of Classical Studies
- Carl Ruck (field hockey) (1912–1980), German field hockey player
- Oliver Ruck (1856–1934), Royal Engineer who played in 1878 FA Cup Final
- Richard Ruck (1851–1935), Royal Engineer who played on the winning side in 1875 FA Cup Final
- Sian Ruck (born 1953), New Zealand international cricketer
- Ulrich Rück (1882–1962 in Nuremberg), German collector of musical instruments and dealer in pianofortes
- Wolfgang Ruck (born 1946), Canadian sprint canoeist
Usage examples of "ruck".
Her bedgown was around her waist, his night-shirt was rucked up and he was pushing himself rhythmically against her.
Over half an hour the sails were snugged, and the tired ship lumped along towards the north Kent coast, with Biter dwindling into the ruck of boats and ships converging on the estuary.
With reference to Point Cloates, Western Australia, and the bird called Ruck or Rock by Marco Polo.
He wore the Cygnet at both wrists and over his heart, though on him they were apt to fly haphazardly, rucked up over his forearms, or half-hidden under a sheepskin vest.
Going back into the bedroom she saw the duvet rucked up as if there was someone still in the bed.
She squirmed backward, the granite edge rough against her belly, rucking up the sweatshirt.
This guy is as mad as a rucking hatter, and he thinks that he can play with the stupid policeman.
I felt a rucking motion in space following it, something moving below the skin of the world, disappearing into the tunnel after the slake-moth.
Meanwhile her guardian was busy rucking up the legs of the bloomers and drawers beneath to expose the shapely, plump round thighs in their sheer silken sheaths, and lone wailed and squirmed over the dome, her magnificent young bosom in erratic upheaval.
I can hack her fucking ears off and ram this knife in her rucking gullet!
As the gathered nobles spoke the response to Sisels words, four guardsman stepped forward and slid two long poles through the coffins handles, rucking the embroidered head of the Eddon wolf on the covering cloth so that its snarl seemed to turn to a look of confusion, then lifted the coffin and carried it to the door of the chapel.
And at once she grabs hold of her skirts and gathers them up under her bosom, holding the rucked material with one hand while, with the other, she pulls down the front of her pantalettes, exposing the dark pubic triangle.
Trieka and Goldenseal helped him up, then he waved them off, moving at his own pace while he rucked up the baggy jeans.
Instead, she waited for Kellan to come to a dead halt, and clambered onto her back anyhow, her bedgown rucked up around her legs.
I've never taken a contract for some rucking barstid like Hitler or any other politician I thought was buggering up his country.