Citations:ruse
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English citations of ruse
Noun
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (intransitive) To fall or slip down (related to rese).
- 1871, George Philip Rigney Pulman, Rustic Sketches: Being Rhymes and "skits" on Angling and Other Subjects, in One of the South-western Dialects: With a Copious Glossary, and General Remarks on Country Talk:
- Ruse. To fall or sink in, to slide or slip down, as land on a hill side sometimes does, or to fall in bodily. "My well's rused in." So Rusement is the land slipped away.
- 1886, Publications, volume 50, English Dialect Society:
- Inasmuch as any movement would cause earth or stones to ruse, it may be that the word is Ang.-Sax. hrýsian, Old Low Germ. hrisian, Goth. hrisjian, to move, to shake. […] Over-ripe corn is said "to ruse out," that is, the grain falls out of the ear or pod in handling.
- 1965, Publications - Issue 50, page 637:
- I be always [u-foo'us] forced to put tim'er in they deep graves, else they'd sure to ruse in, and then they wid'n look well, an' I must drow it all out again, nif did'n vall in tap o' me.