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curricks

curricks is the plural of currick.

Meaning of currick

Noun

currick (plural curricks)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) A pile of rocks used as a landmark; a cairn.
    • And except for the exaggerated chain of diamonds representing the Pennine Way, the only other cartographical features for the foreseeable future are curricks, cairns, sink-holes, shake-holes, hushes and shafts, the first two being piles of stones like unmarked graves, the other four being things...2012, Simon Armitage, Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 116

Questions about curricks

What is curricks the plural of?
Curricks is the plural of currick.

Words near curricks in the dictionary

  1. Currers
  2. currey
  3. Curreys
  4. Curricabark
  5. currick
  6. curricks
  7. curricle
  8. curricles
  9. curricula
  10. curricula vitae
  11. curricula vitarum

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