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RUCKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ruckle mean? 

RUCKLE (verb)
  The verb RUCKLE has 2 senses:

1. make a hoarse, rattling soundplay

2. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaicplay

  Familiarity information: RUCKLE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RUCKLE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a hoarse, rattling sound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

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

rattle (make short successive sounds)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s


Sense 2

Meaning:

Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle

Context example:

crease the paper like this to make a crane

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

fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ruckle"):

cockle; crumple; knit; pucker; rumple (to gather something into small wrinkles or folds)

pucker; ruck; ruck up (become wrinkled or drawn together)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


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