ruck

Noun

1. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
2. In Australian rules football
3. In Australian rules football
4. (archaic) In Australian rules football
5. In Australian rules football
6. The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
7. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
8. (colloquial) An argument or fight.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
2. (transitive) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.

Verb

1. (transitive) To crease or fold.
2. (intransitive) To become creased or folded.

Verb

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

Verb

To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹʌk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ruke

Cognate with Icelandic: hrúka

Cognate with Swedish: ruka

Cognate with Icelandic: hrukka

Cognate with Old High German: runza

Cognate with German: Runzel

Cognate with Middle Dutch: ronse

Cognate with Irish: roc

In summary

From Middle English ruke, from or related to Old Norse hraukr, which is from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“haystack, heap”). Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.

Synonyms

pucker

crease

wrinkle

ruckle

multitude

crinkle

throng

herd

pile

crumple

great number

heap

ruck up

crowd

heaps

huddle

knit

lots

mass

mound

mountain

⛰️

plait

plenty of

ply

pulp

quantity

quarrel

ream

refuse

rick

row

ruffle

rumple

rut

shoal

shrink

shrivel

squeeze

stack

stockpile

swarm

threescore

trash

troop

tuck

vex

volume

wimple

worry

crimple

Translations

mucchio

arruga

massa

buruşukluk

Falte

buruşturmak

plooi

foule

ζάρα

grinza

rimpel

vouw

multitud

buruşmak

izdiham