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Definition of Rucked
1. ruck [v] - See also: ruck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rucked
Literary usage of Rucked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Costume: Fanciful, Historical, and Theatrical by Mrs. Eliza Davis Aria, Eliza Aria, Percy Anderson (1906)
"The closely-fitting sleeves are rucked, and bracelets are drawn over them at the
wrist and above the elbow, while several rows of pearls appear at the neck, ..."
2. The Geology of England and Wales: A Concise Account of the Lithological by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1876)
"Some lavers, the lowest ones perhaps, may be rucked up into mounds higher ...
Some of our rucked layers of cloth should have the summits of their folds cut ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"Hist. Wilts, p. n4, ed. Brit. Buck. (i) n. A crease in a stocking, &c.—NW (2) v.
To crease or wrinkle up. ' My shirt wur aal rucked up under my arms, ..."
4. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1873)
"Some layers— the lowest ones, perhaps—may be rucked up into mounds higher than
all the rest, and yet they are clearly the oldest, ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"... bu' they rucked him." " We'n gelten th' hay rucked up." (2) to get close or
huddle together as fowls do. ..."
6. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"Hist. Wilts, p. 114, ed. Brit. Ruck. (i) n. A crease in a stocking, &c.—NW (2) v.
To crease or wrinkle up. ' My shirt wur aal rucked up under my arms, ..."
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