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The day before yesterday evening I saw them in a punt on the moat, starting for the morass, and I saw them when they returned again--the rick was then already burning.

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  1. noun A stack of hay, straw, or similar material, especially when covered or thatched for protection from the weather.
  2. transitive verb To pile into ricks.

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  • They came upon a rick, and the shadow's head would rise up and then return to its place when they had passed. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • The terrible hay-rick was now so near that one might have gone straight to it, but the steed knew better; instead, she went around the spot in a half-circle, until she reached a little lake that cut off the hay-rick. —  Debts of Honor
  • Then the little boy went by a hay-rick, and he saw a bird pulling some hay out of the hay-rick, and he said, "Bird!" —  Harry's Ladder to Learning
  • After a while the man enters the hollow interior of the rick, and draws from the hay a large, sooty copper vessel, partly moldy with the mold of money. —  Debts of Honor
  • Oh yes--act as if you had not seen that beautiful illumination the day before yesterday evening--that's right--when the rick was burned down, and then the gunpowder dispersed the fire, so that nothing but a black pit remained for mad Kandur I saw it That was your work," cried the fiend, raising high the flashing knife Now, Kandur, have some sense. —  Debts of Honor
 

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  1. Middle English reke, from Old English hrēac.

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  1. Also dial. ruck; from Middle English *rykke, from Anglo-Saxon hrycce, in comp, corn-hrycce, a corn-rick, a derivative form of hreác, a rick, English reek: see reek.
  2. from rick, n.
 

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