RICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rick mean? 

• RICK (noun)
  The noun RICK has 2 senses:

1. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British)

2. a stack of hay

  Familiarity information: RICK used as a noun is rare.

• RICK (verb)
  The verb RICK has 2 senses:

1. pile in ricks

2. twist suddenly so as to sprain

  Familiarity information: RICK used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

crick; kink; rick; wrick

Hypernyms ("rick" is a kind of...):

cramp; muscle spasm; spasm (a painful and involuntary muscular contraction)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

rick (twist suddenly so as to sprain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stack of hay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

hayrick; haystack; rick

Hypernyms ("rick" is a kind of...):

stack (an orderly pile)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rick"):

haycock (a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick)

Derivation:

rick (pile in ricks)

• RICK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rick    ... he / she / it ricks   
Past simple: ricked   
Past participle: ricked   
-ing form: ricking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pile in ricks

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

rick hay

Hypernyms (to "rick" is one way to...):

heap; pile; stack (arrange in stacks)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rick (a stack of hay)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Twist suddenly so as to sprain

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

rick; sprain; turn; twist; wrench; wrick

Context example:

I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days

Hypernyms (to "rick" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he rick his foot?

Derivation:

rick (a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British))

 Context examples 

There was talk of it in Bordeaux, answered the archer, and I saw myself that the armorers and smiths were as busy as rats in a wheat-rick.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Others had to tell of country people, coming in from neighbouring villages, who had seen great trees lying torn out of the earth, and whole ricks scattered about the roads and fields.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He still, however, slept on, and did not awake till he found himself in the mouth of the cow; for the cook had put the hay into the cow’s rick, and the cow had taken Tom up in a mouthful of it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There were many things new to me: for instance, hay-ricks in the trees, and here and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch, their white stems shining like silver through the delicate green of the leaves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“It is such men as he,” retorted Micheldene, “who are like rats in a wheat-rick or moths in a woolfels, a harm and a hindrance to all peaceful and honest men.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)