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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ruckle.

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Examples

  • The stitching on the right shoulder is ruckled and highly noticeable; I expect a replacement to be sent out by return, along with a refund for the cost of postage (proof enclosed).

    Happy Week 7 « Sven’s guide to… 2007

  • One learns that the copious body of "Big Sue" Tilley, who stripped for Freud in the 1990s, presents the camera with a warm soft gleam, even if the brush could only interpret it as a ruckled sprawl of pigment deposits.

    The Way to All Flesh Bell, Julian 2008

  • And there you see the veins throbbing beneath its skin, the nostrils flared with fear, and the hint of muscular eyebrows, ruckled with anxiety over those big round eyes.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • And there you see the veins throbbing beneath its skin, the nostrils flared with fear, and the hint of muscular eyebrows, ruckled with anxiety over those big round eyes.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • And there you see the veins throbbing beneath its skin, the nostrils flared with fear, and the hint of muscular eyebrows, ruckled with anxiety over those big round eyes.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • And there you see the veins throbbing beneath its skin, the nostrils flared with fear, and the hint of muscular eyebrows, ruckled with anxiety over those big round eyes.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • She used to wear a cap like that one, and a sort of ridged and ruckled sweater to try to hide how thin she was.

    Here Lies Gloria Mundy Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1982

  • The jacket has run up to my arm-pits; my legs are bare to the knee; my arms to the elbows; the loosely buttoned front is ruckled up into a funnel, down which, whenever I move, the bedclothes like a bellows draw a chill blast of air on to that particular part of my chest which is designed for catching colds.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 Various

  • Each change of position, that was to be positively the last, lost its virtue in the space of three minutes, till the sheet -- that was too narrow for the mattress -- became ruckled into hills and valleys and made things worse than ever.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

  • And before that crazy question could resolve itself -- behold he was lying wide awake again in his ruckled bed, on the lumpy pillow, staring at the wide patch of moonlight framed by his open door.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

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