rick
1. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British)
• Syn:
crick, kink, wrick
• Derivationally related forms:
wrick (for: wrick), crick (for: crick)
• Regions:
United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
• Hypernyms:
spasm, cramp, muscle spasm
2. a stack of hay
• Syn:
haystack, hayrick
• Hypernyms:
stack
• Hyponyms:
haycock
1. pile in ricks
- rick hay
• Hypernyms:
stack, pile, heap
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. twist suddenly so as to sprain
- wrench one's ankle
- The wrestler twisted his shoulder
- the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell
- I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days
• Syn:
twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick
• Derivationally related forms:
wrick (for: wrick), wrench (for: wrench), sprain (for: sprain), twist (for: twist)
• Hypernyms:
injure, wound
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Did he rick his foot?
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