'Ruck' definitions:
Definition of 'ruck'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Ruck'
From: GCIDE
- Ruck \Ruck\, n. A roc. [Obs. or prov. Eng.] --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ruck'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Ruck'
From: GCIDE
- Ruck \Ruck\, n. [Icel. hrukka. Cf. Ruck, v. t.] A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ruck'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The sheep that rouketh in the fold. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ruck'
From: GCIDE
- Ruck \Ruck\, n. [Cf. Ruck.]
- 1. A heap; a rick. [Prov Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- The ruck in society as a whole. --Lond. Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ruck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a mass of,
- a world of,
- aggregation,
- and bobtail,
- army,
- assemblage,
- average,
- average man,
- bank,
- bevy,
- bezel,
- bunch,
- canaille,
- chamfer,
- chase,
- chink,
- cloud,
- cluster,
- clutter,
- cock,
- cocker,
- cockle,
- cohue,
- collection,
- common man,
- common ruck,
- common run,
- company,
- congeries,
- congregation,
- corrugate,
- corrugation,
- covey,
- crack,
- crankle,
- cranny,
- crease,
- crimp,
- crimple,
- crinkle,
- crowd,
- crumple,
- crush,
- cut,
- dado,
- deluge,
- drift,
- engraving,
- Everyman,
- everyman,
- everywoman,
- flight,
- flock,
- flocks,
- flood,
- flute,
- fluting,
- fold,
- furrow,
- galaxy,
- gash,
- generality,
- girl next door,
- gouge,
- groove,
- group,
- hail,
- heap,
- hive,
- homme moyen sensuel,
- horde,
- host,
- incision,
- jam,
- knit,
- knot,
- large amount,
- legion,
- lots,
- many,
- mass,
- masses of,
- microgroove,
- mob,
- mound,
- muchness,
- multitude,
- muster,
- nest,
- numbers,
- ordinary Joe,
- ordinary run,
- pack,
- panoply,
- plica,
- plurality,
- press,
- Public,
- pucker,
- purse,
- quantities,
- quite a few,
- rabbet,
- rabble,
- rabblement,
- rag,
- ragtag,
- ragtag and bobtail,
- rick,
- ridge,
- rifling,
- rimple,
- ripple,
- rivel,
- rout,
- ruckle,
- rumple,
- run,
- rut,
- score,
- scores,
- scratch,
- shirr,
- shoal,
- slit,
- spate,
- stack,
- streak,
- stria,
- striation,
- sulcation,
- sulcus,
- swarm,
- tag,
- throng,
- tidy sum,
- well-worn groove,
- wimple,
- worlds of,
- wrinkle