ruck

Synonyymisanakirja: ruck

ruck

1. tungos, väentungos, ihmisjoukko, joukko, väkijoukko, massa, rahvas, laskos, prässi, poimu, taive, taitos, ryppy, kurttu, rypistää, rytätä, kurtistaa, kähertää, taittaa, rypistyä, kurtistua, mennä kurttuun.

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Riimisanakirja: ruck

ruck rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. come-back, feedback, playback, vorschmack, crack, glencheck, slapstick, joystick, rock, hevirock...

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Käännökset: ruck

ruck suomeksi

massa, kurttu, kurtistua

ruck englanniksi

• A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. (defdate)

• 1873, (w), Phineas Redux, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=633717879&tag=Trollope,+Anthony:+Phineas+Redux,+1873&query=ruck&id=TroRedu Chapter 16:

Dandolo was constantly in the ditch, sometimes lying with his side against the bank, and had now been so hustled and driven that, had he been on the other side, he would have had no breath left to carry his rider, even in the ruck of the hunt.

• 1914, (w), Penrod, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=611097210&tag=Tarkington,+Booth,+1869-1946:+Penrod,+1914&query=ruck&id=TarPenr Chapter 23:

At last, out of the ruck rose Verman, disfigured and maniacal. With a wild eye he looked about him for his trusty rake; but Penrod, in horror, had long since thrown the rake out into the yard.

• puhekieltä Contesting a bounce or ball up; used appositionally in "ruck contest". Rucks also used collectively either of ruckmen or of ruckmen and ruck rovers, and occasionally used in place of "followers" (including rovers too). (defdate)

• puhekieltä The situation formed when a runner is brought to ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum. (defdate)

• The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks. (defdate)

• 1874, (w), http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=342267433&tag=Hardy,+Thomas:+Far+from+the+Madding+Crowd,+1874&query=ruck&id=HarMadd Far from the Madding Crowd:

"He is well born." "His being higher in learning and birth than the ruck o' soldiers is anything but a proof of his worth. It shows his course to be down'ard."

• 1911, (w), ‘Tobermory’, The Chronicles of Clovis:

‘Here and there among cats one comes across an outstanding superior intellect, just as one does among the ruck of human beings ....’

• puhekieltä To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football.

• puhekieltä To contest the possession of the ball in a game of Rugby.

• puhekieltä To crease or fold.

• 1956, (w), (w), Collins, 1998, Chapter 8,

Puzzle begged very hard to have the lion-skin taken off him. He said it was too hot and the way it was rucked up on his back was uncomfortable (..)

• 1959, (w), The Tents of Wickedness, p. 28,

"What, exactly, happened down cellar?" Appleyard asked, straightening with his heel a rucked rug.

• 1989, (w), "Block Out" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 299,

She wore long dangling earrings faced with mirrors, and white Bermuda shorts rucked back to reveal knees and thighs like waxed maple.

• 2003, (w), "L,U, C, I, E." in Loot and Other Stories, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, p. ,

The army had a shooting range up there hidden in the chestnut forests, that was all; like a passing plane rucking the fabric of perfect silence, the shots brought all that shatters continuity in life, the violence of emotions, the trajectories of demands and contests of will.

• puhekieltä To become folded.

• 1917, (w), w:Summer (novel)|Summer, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=727838576&tag=Wharton,+Edith,+1862-1937:+Summer;+a+novel,+1917&query=ruck&id=WhaSumm Chapter 12.,

"Will you come over now and try on your dress?" Ally asked, looking at her with wistful admiration. "I want to be sure the sleeves don't ruck up the same as they did yesterday."

• A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.

• puhekieltä To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.

(rfquotek)

• (obsolete form of)

• puhekieltä A rucksack; a large backpack.

• 2007, Brandon Friedman, The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory (ISBN 0760331502), page 57:

Shah-e-Kot Valley, Afghanistan. March 2002. I strained to see over the soldiers in front of me. They were struggling to shuffle off the bird as quickly as they could. I dragged my ruck across the floor of the aircraft in my right hand.

• July 5, 2013, (w), Top 10 Ruck Marching Tips, http://sealgrinderpt.com/navy-seal-workout/ruck-marching-tips.html/, accessed 17 JUL 2015:

"First of all – a “ruck” is nothing more than a backpack. So to ruck march, is to carry a heavy duty backpack on a hike (loaded with gear and supplies)."

• 2015, Sean T. Smith, Wrath and Redemption (ISBN 1618684582):

Rocky was only five foot six and skinny as a February coyote, but he could hump an eighty pound ruck across twenty mountain miles (..)

• To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

• 2015 June 16, Brandon Cole, Mount Vernons Barnes to Compete in "Death Race", in the Posey County News'', page 13:

He started at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday as he began rucking to church. He changed his clothes, went to church and then began rucking again. That distance totaled about nine miles. Rucking is hiking with a military style backpack, filled with weight.

• puhekieltä English ruck

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