单词 | ruck |
释义 | ruck I. 1. chiefly dialect < coral rucks sticking out of the water — Blackwood's > 2. a. < successes emerge from a ruck of smaller undertakings — Carl Van Doren > b. < wrote the common ruck of the songs I was listening to — Max Beerbohm > < qualities that are bound to raise a man out of the ruck — G.W.Johnson > < from the ruck of routine, there arose a diversion — A.R.Griffin > c. < what I feel about the ruck of recent verse — J.L.Lowes > < a great ruck of textbooks — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > < picked our way through the ruck, lighting matches … when we found ourselves trapped in blind alleys between bales — W.D.Steele > < marked the land with the ruck of buffalo bones — Meridel Le Sueur > 3. a. < come up from the ruck > b. < finish a yacht race in the ruck > < the ruck of wagons came after them — Irving Bacheller > < war and chaos in its ruck — S.L.A.Marshall > 4. II. chiefly dialect III. IV. intransitive verb < more micaceous rocks may show a rucking or even small folds — Economic Geology > — often used with up < keeping the shirt from rucking up — advt > transitive verb < those whose natures have been rucked and wrinkled with suffering — R.S.Ellery > — often used with up < page was so wet, so rucked up — Elizabeth Taylor > < top of the world, here rucked up into gleaming ridges — Phil Stong > V. dialect Britain |
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