ruckle
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Other forms of American enterprise were: the making of glass in lumps, to be chipped into flakes; the ruckling it; the shaping it in a molten state, or the pulling it out of shape.
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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.
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Suddenly, the dead silence struck me: my ear missed the "ruckle," and the occasional exclamations of delight.
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And before that crazy question could resolve itself—behold he was lying wide awake again in his ruckled bed, on the lumpy pillow, staring at the wide patch of moonlight framed by his open door.
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I heard the throb of the motor and ruckling of the gravel of the path—he was moving away.
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