ruck

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

ruck, n. 

 A roc.  Drayton.  [1913 Webster]

ruck, v. t. & i. [Icel hrukkast to wrinkle, hrukka wrinkle, fold.].

 To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.  Smart.  [1913 Webster]

ruck, n. [Icel. hrukka. Cf. Ruck, v. t.].

 A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.  [1913 Webster]

ruck, v. i. [Cf. Dan. ruge to brood, to hatch.].

 To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.  Gower. South.  [1913 Webster]
"The sheep that rouketh in the fold."  [1913 Webster]

ruck, n. [Cf. Ruck.].

•  A heap; a rick.  [1913 Webster]
•  The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.  [1913 Webster]

  "The ruck in society as a whole."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ruck, n.
1 (prec. by the) the main body of competitors not likely to overtake the leaders.
2 an undistinguished crowd of persons or things.
3 Rugby Football a loose scrum with the ball on the ground.
4 Austral. Rules a group of three mobile players.

ruck, v. & n.
--v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) make or become creased or wrinkled.
--n. a crease or wrinkle.

Etymology

ON hrukka

THESAURUS

ruck

Everyman, Public, a mass of, a world of, aggregation, and bobtail, army, assemblage, average, average man, bank, bevy, bezel, bunch, canaille, chamfer, chase, chink, cloud, cluster, clutter, cock, cocker, cockle, cohue, collection, common man, common ruck, common run, company, congeries, congregation, corrugate, corrugation, covey, crack, crankle, cranny, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crowd, crumple, crush, cut, dado, deluge, drift, engraving, everyman, everywoman, flight, flock, flocks, flood, flute, fluting, fold, furrow, galaxy, gash, generality, girl next door, gouge, groove, group, hail, heap, hive, homme moyen sensuel, horde, host, incision, jam, knit, knot, large amount, legion, lots, many, mass, masses of, microgroove, mob, mound, muchness, multitude, muster, nest, numbers, ordinary Joe, ordinary run, pack, panoply, plica, plurality, press, pucker, purse, quantities, quite a few, rabbet, rabble, rabblement, rag, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, rick, ridge, rifling, rimple, ripple, rivel, rout, ruckle, rumple, run, rut, score, scores, scratch, shirr, shoal, slit, spate, stack, streak, stria, striation, sulcation, sulcus, swarm, tag, throng, tidy sum, well-worn groove, wimple, worlds of, wrinkle

ROGET THESAURUS

ruck

Fold

N fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease, tuck, gather, flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel, pucker, crow's feet, plication, folded, fluted, pleated.

VB fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker, turn down, double down, down under, tuck, ruck, hem, gather.