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Ruckle   /rˈəkəl/   Listen
Ruckle

verb
1.
Make a hoarse, rattling sound.
2.
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle.  "Crease the paper like this to make a crane"






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"Ruckle" Quotes from Famous Books



... from his search of the rooms, and spent a minute in trying whether the mats would really fall flat when the doors were open, or merely ruckle up in a way as to appear they had been untouched; but in each case, the mats fell flat, and ...
— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson

... master within reach of her moist and wistful trunk. She wore a blanket on which was printed: "Imogene, Mascot of the Smyrna Ancients." Imogene was making herself useful as well as ornamental, for she was harnessed to the pole of "Hecla Number One," and the old tub "ruckle-chuckled" along at her heels on its little red trucks. From its brake-bars hung the banners won in the past-and-gone victories of twenty years of musters. Among these ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day



Words linked to "Ruckle" :   ruck, crumple, rattle, cockle, rumple, fold, knit, fold up, ruck up, pucker, turn up



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