rick
/ɹɪk/UK/ɹɪk/
rick noun: straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
Noun (1)
rick (plural ricks)
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
- "So this last week, you see, crown'd the business; an' on Satherday night the last shafe was nately tied an' sint in to the misthress, an' everything was finisht, all to the tatchin' o' the ricks."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 514
- There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows;[…].1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 53, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
- A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
Verb (1)
rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
Verb (2)
rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)
Noun (2)
rick (plural ricks)
Verb (3)
rick (third-person singular simple present ricks, present participle ricking, simple past and past participle ricked)
Noun (3)
rick (plural ricks)
Noun (4)
rick (plural ricks)
Proper noun capitalized: Rick
Rick
- A diminutive of the male given name Richard, as well as similar name such as Ricardo.
- Mark Watney is the first of them to be introduced on screen, in the middle of collecting soil and rock samples from the Martian surface. Rick Martinez (Michael Peña) jokes that he just discovered dirt, and Mark ribs him about the usefulness of his job.2016 August 31, “GENIUS CHARACTER REVEALS: Mark Watney”, in Industrial Scripts
- A surname transferred from the given name.
rick meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
rick in Hindi
- रिक, रीक
rick in Tamil
- ரிக்
rick in Marathi
- रिक, रीक
rick in Urdu
- ڈھیر, مروڑ, موچ, پشتارہ
More languagesFewer languages
- rick in Bengali
- গাদা, স্তূপ
- rick in Telugu
- రిక్
- rick in Malayalam
- കൂമ്പാരം, വയ്ക്കോൽ കൂമ്പാരം, കൂന, സഞ്ചയം
- rick in Kannada
- ಬಣವೆ, ಮೆದೆ, ಒಟ್ಟಿಲು
- rick in Punjabi
- ਰਿਕ, ਰੀਕ
- rick in Gujarati
- રિક, રીક
- rick in Odia
- ରିକ୍
- rick in Nepali
- रिक, रीक, टु रिक
- rick in Persian
- راژ râž, راش râš, چاچ čâč
Examples of rick in a sentence
- Rick decided to try the alligator burger, but Beth unadventurously ordered a salad.
- Rick is very experimental and open-minded about trying new things, but Ted is a meat and potatoes kind of guy.
- Rick, do you need to drink in here?” “Yes.” “Here's the adventure.
Forms of rick
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ricks |
| alternative form | ruck |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ricks |
| present participle | ricking |
| past participle | ricked |
| past | ricked |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Ric |
| alternative form | Rik |
Origin of rick
From Middle English *rykke, from Old English hrycce (“rick, heap, pile”), cognate with Scots ruk (“rick”), Norwegian ruka (“rick, haystack”). Related also to Old English hrēac (“rick, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”). Further relations: Dutch rook, Icelandic hraukur, Irish cruach. Doublet of croagh.
From earlier wrick, from Middle English wricken, wrikken (“to move back and forth”), probably from Middle Dutch *verwricken or Middle Low German vorwricken. Cognate with West Frisian wrikke, wrikje, Dutch wrikken, Low German wricken, German wricken, Danish vrikke, Swedish vricka.
From Middle English *rikken (attested only as palatised variant Middle English richen (“to pull, tug; to move, proceed, run; to twist, turn”)), from Old Norse rykkja (“to move, rock, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *rukkijaną (“to rock, move”). Cognate with English rock. Possibly merged with Middle English wrikken (“to move to and fro, move back and forth”), see Etymology 2 above.
Words formed from rick
Phrases with rick
Words that rhyme with rick
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- nick
- flick
- sick
- unpick
- chick
- dick
- vic
- wick
- crick
- ick
- shtick
- snick
- squick
- stich
- strick
- unstick
- blick
- hick
- inwick
- klick
- mick
- outwick
- pic
- Roman brick
- shlick
- sic
- SLC
- spic
- thicc
- tic
- Vick
- yardstick
- cinematographic
- fic
- flic
- frick
- gick
- hard tick
- hic
- hysteric
- Laconophilic
- megalographic
- miskick
- nic
- rainstick
- restart kick
- schtik
- shift stick
Questions about rick
- What does rick mean?
- Rick means straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
- What is rick in Hindi?
- Rick in Hindi is रिक, रीक. See Rick meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rick?
- Rick can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce rick?
- Rick is pronounced /ɹɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of rick?
- The plural of rick is ricks.
Words near rick in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rick (page history and authors); Rick (page history and authors); rick (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rick (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rick (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rick (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rick (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rick (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rick (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rick (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rick (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rick (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rick (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rick (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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