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Ricking vs Ticking - What's the difference?

ricking | ticking |

As verbs the difference between ricking and ticking

is that ricking is while ticking is .

As a noun ticking is

a strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses or ticking can be a sound of something ticking or ticking can be a marking that occurs on some horses it involves white flecks of hair at the flank, and white hairs at the base of the tail, called a skunk tail or rabicano sometimes referred to as birdcatcher ticks.

ricking

English

Verb

(head)
  • ticking

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
  • *1897 , Kipling, Captains Courageous ,
  • Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound of something ticking.
  • * Laman Blanchard, The Frolics of Time
  • Were they indeed the tickings of a hundred clocks — the fine low inward breathings of Time's children!
  • An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.
  • Derived terms

    * the clock is ticking

    Verb

    (head)
  • Etymology 3

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A marking that occurs on some horses. It involves white flecks of hair at the flank, and white hairs at the base of the tail, called a skunk tail or rabicano. Sometimes referred to as birdcatcher ticks.
  • See also