[
US
/ˈɹəkəɫ/
]
VERB
- make a hoarse, rattling sound
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make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic
crease the paper like this to make a crane
The dress got wrinkled
How To Use ruckle In A Sentence
- There were three blankets upon three raised beds---one large and old, the other two little more than truckle beds. STARDUST
- That and this ruckle of stones we sit in are all that's left of what was my father's and my grandfather's and their forebears back till the dark of time. Doom Castle
- Plenty of crusty bread and a big salad with a simplified cheese board, such as a whole Brie and a small truckle of Cheddar, will go down better than a pudding.
- Britons, fortified by a much more active, muscular liberalism, would no longer truckle to politically correct notions of passive tolerance," says the Prime Minister. Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain
- Each truckle of cheese is covered in a wax coating.
- 'We be bruckle folk here -- the best o' us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill, and The Bibliotaph and Other People
- It is not too much to say that almost every step of the weary sultry way was in pain, and I reached Ujiji a mere ruckle of bones. How I Found Livingstone
- Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be. A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 2
- He did let go, but only with one hand, and this in order to slide it down her leg, evidently meaning to get hold of her skirt and ruckle it up. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- They frankly welcomed the new-comer, and if they did not, as Ingred had bitterly prognosticated, exactly "truckle" to her, they certainly began to treat her as a favorite. A Popular Schoolgirl