Rick
[rɪk]
Definition
(n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
(v. t.) To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.
Editor: Milton
Definition
n. a pile or heap as of hay.—n.pl. Rick′ers the stems of young trees cut up for spars &c.—ns. Rick′le (Scot.) a pile of stones loosely thrown together: a small rick of grain; Rick′-rack a kind of open-work edging made of serpentine braid; Rick′-stand a flooring on which a rick is made; Hay′-rick′er a horse-rake for cocking up hay.
Checker: Pamela
Examples
- What am I but another dreamer, Rick? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I don't know what I am about with it; it's all the wind--invariably has that effect--I won't press you, Rick; you may be right. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Rick, the world is before you; and it is most probable that as you enter it, so it will receive you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What more may come must come of being worked out, Rick, and no sooner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No one, Rick, I think? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Undoubtedly, dear Rick. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nothing more, Rick; nothing more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn-ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on the right. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Checked by Blanchard