rick
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *rykke, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hrēac (“rick, stack”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Norwegian rauk, Swedish rök, Icelandic hraukur.
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Noun
rick (plural ricks)
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
- (Can we date this quote by George Eliot and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows; […].
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
- (Can we date this quote by George Eliot and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
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Verb
rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
Etymology 2
From earlier wrick, from Middle English wricken, wrikken (“to move back and forth”), probably from Middle Dutch *verwricken or Middle Low German vorwricken. Cognate with West Frisian wrikke, wrikje, Dutch wrikken, Low German wricken, German wricken, Danish vrikke, Swedish vricka.
Verb
rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)
- To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.
Etymology 3
Abbreviated form from recruit.
Noun
rick (plural ricks)
- (military, derogatory and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.
- No turning back now rick, you are the property of the US government now.
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