单词 | in a ruck |
释义 | > as lemmasin (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. ΘΚΠ 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 clamp- 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. in a ruck c. Sport (chiefly Horse Racing). in a ruck: in a tight group; crowded together. Cf. sense 4a. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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