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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A multitude; a throng.
2. n. The undistinguished crowd or ordinary run of persons or things.
3. n. People who are followers, not leaders.
4. n. Sports A play in Rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball dropped by a tackled ball carrier, with each player attempting to gain possession of the ball by kicking it to a teammate.
5. n. Sports The mass of players during such a play. Also called loose scrum.
6. v. To make a fold in; crease.
7. v. To become creased.
8. n. A crease or pucker, as in cloth.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To squat, like a bird on its nest or a beast crouching; crouch down; cower; hence, to huddle together; lie close, as sheep in a fold.
2. The furies made the bride-groomes bed, and on the house did rucke
3. A cursed owle, the messenger of ill successe and lucke.
4. To perch; seat, as a bird when roosting: used reflexively.
5. n. A fold, crease, or pucker in the material of a garment, resulting from faults in the making.
6. n. In printing, a crease or wrinkle made in a sheet of paper in passing from the feed-board to impression.
7. To wrinkle; crease; pucker: usually with up: as, to ruck up cloth; to ruck up a silk skirt.
8. To ruffle the temper of; annoy; vex: followed by up.
9. To become creased and wrinkled; draw up in wrinkles or puckers: as, this stuff rucks easily.
10. To be ruffled in temper; be annoyed, vexed, or excited: followed by up.
11. n. Same as rick.
12. n. A vague unit of volume, a stack, about 5¾ cubic yards of bark.
13. n. A crowd or throng; especially, a closely packed and indiscriminate crowd or mass of persons or things; a jam; a press.
14. n. The common run of persons or things; the commonplace multitude, as contrasted with the distinguished or successful few: specifically said of the defeated horses in a race.
15. n. Trash; rubbish; nonsense.
16. To gather together into heaps.
17. n. A small heifer.
18. n. A rut in a road.
19. n. Same as roc.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, transitive To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football.
2. v. transitive To crease or fold.
3. v. intransitive To become folded.
4. n. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Obs. or prov. Eng. A roc.
2. v. To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease.
3. n. A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
4. v. Obs. or Prov. Eng. To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
5. n. Prov Eng. & Scot. A heap; a rick.
6. n. colloq. The common sort, whether persons or things.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
2. v. become wrinkled or drawn together
3. n. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)