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Rick

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Rick 

a dense mass of hay or straw with an elongated shape. Hay or straw is packed into ricks for open-air storage. The dimensions may vary; for example, the average width is 4.5 to 5.5 m, the length is 8 to 25 m, and the height is 6 to 7 m.
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The long strap which ran from the driving-wheel of his engine to the red thresher under the rick was the sole tie-line between agriculture and him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things--but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
He still, however, slept on, and did not awake till he found himself in the mouth of the cow; for the cook had put the hay into the cow's rick, and the cow had taken Tom up in a mouthful of it.
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