rick
noun
Also a large, usually rectangular stack or pile of hay, straw, corn, or the like, in a field, especially when thatched or covered by a tarpaulin; an outdoor or makeshift mow.
ricks
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pluralof rick.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Down in the tunnels, workers sorted the remains of the dead, filing them by bones into space-efficient ricks and stacks.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019
Burnley’s welcome back to the Premier League ends in encouraging defeat, while Monday Night Football ends an hour later with no obvious ricks or gaffes.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2014
In Martinsburg, W. Va., a heifer dropped down between two ricks of straw and subsisted seven weeks without water.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tempo is high, the ricks are ticking and the song is a shaggy Pekinese.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some elm trees shade the ricks, and once now and then a wood-pigeon settles in them for a little while.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
