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Verbi

1. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
2. To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
4. (transitive) To crease or fold.
5. (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
6. (intransitive) To become creased or folded.

Substantiivi

1. A small heifer.
2. (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.
3. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
4. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
5. In Australian rules football
6. A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
7. A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
8. (now rare) Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
9. Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
10. (rugby union) The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
11. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
12. (colloquial) An argument or fight.