RUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ruck mean? 

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

1. a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things

2. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

  Familiarity information: RUCK used as a noun is rare.

• RUCK (verb)
  The verb RUCK has 1 sense:

1. become wrinkled or drawn together

  Familiarity information: RUCK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

herd; ruck

Context example:

the children resembled a fairy herd

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

concourse; multitude; throng (a large gathering of people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

pucker; ruck

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

bend; crease; crimp; flexure; fold; plication (an angular or rounded shape made by folding)

Derivation:

ruck (become wrinkled or drawn together)

• RUCK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ruck    ... he / she / it rucks   
Past simple: rucked   
Past participle: rucked   
-ing form: rucking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become wrinkled or drawn together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pucker; ruck; ruck up

Context example:

her lips puckered

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

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

ruck (an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth))

 Context examples 

That brought him out of the ruck, you see, and people remember him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They can't go any faster than the ruck of their scholars, and I can set a faster pace for myself than they set for a whole schoolroom.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And yet his work stands out from the ruck of the contemporary versifiers as a balas ruby among carrots.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I would not develop an eccentricity, although he was good enough to point out several by which I might come out of the ruck, as he expressed it, and so catch the attention of the strange world in which he lived.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was impelled to suggest Locksley Hall, and would have done so, had not his vision gripped him again and left him staring at her, the female of his kind, who, out of the primordial ferment, creeping and crawling up the vast ladder of life for a thousand thousand centuries, had emerged on the topmost rung, having become one Ruth, pure, and fair, and divine, and with power to make him know love, and to aspire toward purity, and to desire to taste divinity—him, Martin Eden, who, too, had come up in some amazing fashion from out of the ruck and the mire and the countless mistakes and abortions of unending creation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)