Read full poem →Imagine it, my fellow sufferers--
Our maleness lifts us out of the ruck,
Who’d have foreseen it?
Dictionary Entry
A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rucket rucksack ruckruck bertaruck missruck commonruck robruck von
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Poetry examples for “ruck”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Age and age's evils, hoar hair,
Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death's worst, winding
sheets, tombs and worms and tumbling to decay;
Read full poem →Age and age's evils, hoar hair,
Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death's worst, winding
sheets, tombs and worms and tumbling to decay;
Read full poem →The sentry's body; then his rifle, handles
Of old Boche bombs, and mud in ruck on ruck.
We dredged him up, for killed, until he whined