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Definition of Ruckling
1. ruckle [v] - See also: ruckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruckling
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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