Rick vs Hazard - What's the difference?
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A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
*(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
*:There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks , rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows;.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
(lb) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
(military, pejorative, and, demeaning) A brand new (naive ) boot camp inductee.
(historical) A type of game played with dice.
Chance.
* , Richard III , act 5, scene 4:
* 2006 May 20, John Patterson, The Guardian :
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
* (rfdate) Rogers:
* 1599 , Wm. Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar :
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An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
(golf) sand or water obstacle on a golf course
(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard'') or the player's ball (''losing hazard ).
Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare:
To expose to chance; to take a risk.
* (rfdate) John Clarke
* (rfdate) Fuller
To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) Landor
As a proper noun rick
is , or sometimes of related names, such as (ricardo).As a noun hazard is
(historical) a type of game played with dice.As a verb hazard is
to expose to chance; to take a risk.rick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , Icelandic (m).Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rickburnerEtymology 2
(etyl) wrickeEtymology 3
Abbreviated form from recruitNoun
(en noun)- No turning back now rick, you are property of the US government, no longer protected by the bill of rights; you follow the UCMJ now.
hazard
English
(wikipedia hazard)Noun
(en noun)- I will stand the hazard of the die.
- I see animated movies are now managing, by hazard or design, to reflect our contemporary reality more accurately than live-action movies.
- He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
- Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard .
- Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard .
citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars:
- Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards , snow is awful even when you don't have to travel.
- The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards .
- your latter hazard
Derived terms
* biohazard * chemical hazard * haphazard * hazardous * moral hazard * multihazard * occupational hazardVerb
(en verb)- Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
- He hazards his neck to the halter.
- I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.
- They hazard to cut their feet.
- I'll hazard a guess.
