Definition of Ruckling

1. Verb. (present participle of ruckle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ruckling

1. ruckle [v] - See also: ruckle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruckling

ruched
ruches
ruching
ruchings
ruck
ruck rover
ruck rovers
ruck up
rucked
rucked up
rucking
ruckle
ruckled
ruckles
rucklidgeite
ruckling (current term)
ruckman
ruckmen
rucks
rucksac
rucksack
rucksacks
rucksacs
ruckseat
ruckseats
ruckus
ruckuses
rucola
rucolas
rucs

Literary usage of Ruckling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Other forms of American enterprise were : the making of glass in lumps, to be chipped into Hakes; the ruckling it; restrained from self-expression. ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Other forms of American enterprise were: the making of glass in lumps, to be chipped into flakes; the ruckling it ..."

3. British Farmer's Magazine (1848)
"... at the expiration of a week turned, and allowed to remain until fit for ruckling, which is from seven to ten days ; particular care and attention must ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"ruckling, the least of a brood ; wretch- ock, the least of a brood of fowls. ... something small of its kind, from G. schrumpfen, to shrink. So ruckling or ..."

5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"ruckling, the least of a brood ; wretch- ock, the least of a brood of fowls.—Hal. ... So ruckling or ..."

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