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in (also of) a ruck
b. A heap or pile of anything. Frequently in in (also of) a ruck: in an untidy heap or tangle. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern) in later use.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile
heapc725
cockeOE
hill1297
tassc1330
glub1382
mow?1424
bulkc1440
pile1440
pie1526
bing1528
borwen1570
ruck1601
rick1608
wreck1612
congest1625
castle1636
coacervation1650
congestion1664
cop1666
cumble1694
bin1695
toss1695
thurrock1708
rucklea1725
burrow1784
mound1788
wad1805
stook1865
boorach1868
barrow1869
sorites1871
tump1892
fid1926
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1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iv. sig. Gv So huge a Ruck Of heap'd vp fortunes.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 4 There in another Rucke Princes and Peasants lay together mixt.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 312/1 They can neither Stand, Sit, Kneel, nor lie down, but be all in a ruck, or knit together.
1708 R. Morden & H. Moll Fifty Six Maps Great Brit. sig. C/3 By the Bishops ruck of stones.
1851 J. W. Haddock Somnolism & Psycheism (ed. 2) 199 I saw..clothes lying, folded carelessly. (‘In a ruck’—she said).
1865 B. Brierley Irkdale (1868) 47 Tumblin' 'em o' of a rook like an owd goods shop.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 130 He doesn't care two pence about the bit of a rouk o' cobble stones and sand.
1918 M. Symon Wir Roup 1 Wasties steed on gaird aside A ruck o' aul' lum hats.
2001 Birds Summer 84/2 When they [sc. plants] had strained every fibre and could get no closer to the sky, the whole collapsed in on itself in a resinous ruck.
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in a ruck
c. Sport (chiefly Horse Racing). in a ruck: in a tight group; crowded together. Cf. sense 4a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [adverb] > position on course
in a ruck1832
on the rails1886
1832 Sporting Mag. Nov. 8/2 A powerful field, no less than fifteen coursers, who were all in a ruck to within half a distance of the post.
1844 Amer. Turf. Reg. Nov. 687 McCabe came next, with Fowle, Stannard, Taylor, and Jackson, in a ruck behind him.
1879 J. S. Campion On Foot in Spain 47 They went by in a ruck, like a close Derby finish.
1915 ‘H. Payson’ Motor Cycle Chums through Hist. Amer. xxx. 284 For the first few yards the racers were bunched in a ruck. At the half mile they began to string out.
2002 Sportsman (Nexis) 22 Nov. 80 In the Peters they all finished in a ruck. The horses in the inside just couldn't go.
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