rick

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

rick, n. [OE. reek, rek, AS. hreác a heap; akin to hryce rick, Icel. hraukr.].

 A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.  [1913 Webster]
"Golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows."  [1913 Webster]

rick, v. t. 

 To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rick, n. & v.
--n. a stack of hay, corn, etc., built into a regular shape and usu. thatched.
--v.tr. form into a rick or ricks.

rick, n. & v. (also wrick)
--n. a slight sprain or strain.
--v.tr. sprain or strain slightly.

Etymology

ME wricke f. MLG wricken move about, sprain

THESAURUS

rick

abundance, accumulation, amassment, anthill, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, backlog, bank, bank up, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, budget, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, cock, collection, commissariat, commissary, conservatory, cornucopia, crate, crib, cumulation, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, drift, dump, dune, embankment, exchequer, glory hole, godown, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, hill, hoard, hold, hutch, inventory, larder, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, mass, material, materials, materiel, molehill, mound, mow, munitions, pile, pile up, plenitude, plenty, provisionment, provisions, pyramid, rack, rations, repertoire, repertory, repository, reservoir, ruck, shelf, shock, snowdrift, stack, stack room, stack up, stock, stock room, stock-in-trade, stockpile, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, stores, supplies, supply base, supply depot, supply on hand, tank, treasure, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, turn, twist, unsteady, vat, vault, warehouse, wine cellar, wrench

ROGET THESAURUS

rick

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.