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rick1 n (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a large stack of hay, corn, peas, etc., built in the open in a regular-shaped pile, esp one with a thatched top vb (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (tr) to stack or pile into ricks [Old English hrēac; related to Old Norse hraukr] rick2 n a wrench or sprain, as of the back vb (tr) to wrench or sprain (a joint, a limb, the back, etc.) [see wrick] Rick a heap or pile; a stack of hay, corn, peas, etc., especially one built and thatched. See also mow. Examples: rick of bricks, 1703; of coal, 1881; of corn, 1382; of grain; of peas; of snow, 1886; of straw, 1589; of wheat, 1557; hayrick, 1895.
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The long strap which ran from the driving-wheel of his engine to the red thresher under the rick was the sole tie-line between agriculture and him. To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things--but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature. He still, however, slept on, and did not awake till he found himself in the mouth of the cow; for the cook had put the hay into the cow's rick, and the cow had taken Tom up in a mouthful of it. |
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