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rick


noun

  1. Also hayrick. Chiefly Midland U.S. a large, usually rectangular stack or pile of hay, straw, corn, or the like, in a field, especially when thatched or covered by a tarpaulin; an outdoor or makeshift mow.
  2. a stack of cordwood or logs cut to even lengths.
  3. a frame of horizontal bars and vertical supports, as used to hold barrels in a distillery, boxes in a warehouse, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. to form grain into a stack or pile.
  2. to stack (cordwood) in ricks.

verb (used with or without object), noun

  1. wrick.

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Eric or Richard.

noun

  1. a large stack of hay, corn, peas, etc, built in the open in a regular-shaped pile, esp one with a thatched top

verb

  1. (tr) to stack or pile into ricks

noun

  1. a wrench or sprain, as of the back

verb

  1. (tr) to wrench or sprain (a joint, a limb, the back, etc)
n.

Old English hreac “stack of hay or straw,” from Proto-Germanic *khraukaz (cf. Old Norse hraukr, Frisian reak, Dutch rook “heap”); perhaps related to ridge.

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