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Ruckle

verb

Make a hoarse, rattling sound.

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