rickedadj.1
/rɪkt/, U.S. /rɪkt/ Stacked or piled to form a rick (rick n.1).
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1772 J. W. Baker Exper. in Agric. 1771 42 It will perhaps be urged, that my corn will not be so dry as ricked corn.
1869 Edinb. Evening Courant 3 Dec. (Suppl.) 4/2 A large quantity of ricked corn was destroyed.
1881 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 16 Sept. 6/3 7 feet long, 7 feet wide, and 7 feet thick of ricked hay will weigh a ton.
1916 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 18 June (Feature section) 9/7 In dry regions ricked hay keeps well.
1972 Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 27 Sept. 14/2 Also seen will be the transporter for the module and the front end loader for handling ricked cotton.
2002 C. Carpenter Take Wings of Morning i. 13 Northwest of the mill, down river, was a great dun-colored checkerboard of ricked cordwood.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rickedadj.2
/rɪkt/, U.S. /rɪkt/ Of a joint, muscle, or other part of the body: twisted, wrenched, strained.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > sprain or strain
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sprained1606
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raxed1824
ricked1839
paratonic1857
wrangled1876
sprung1912
pulled1913
1839 E. Pickering Fright I. vii. 307 A ricked ankle—that is all.
1884 Daily News 24 July 5/1 Suffering from a ‘ricked’ back.
1915 W. M. Raine Highgrader xxii. 278 Favoring his ricked ankle as best he could, Jack climbed the wall ladder to the ledge.
1936 A. A. Tilley Madame de Sévigné iii. 89 It was a sharp attack of rheumatism; it began with a ricked neck (torticolis [sic]) and severe pain in her right side.
1973 M. L. Settle Prisons v. 69 ‘Speak up,’ he said through his ricked mouth.
2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 7 Sept. 84 The talismanic Australian bowler ended the day with a burst blister on a finger, a badly bruised shin and a ricked neck.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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