Definition of "rickers" []

• Plural form of ricker. (noun)

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• "The rickers had to come down subsequently, since we found that the gear could not carry the accumulating weight of rime."
• "The outbuildings were usually built with roughly squared framing to which heavy split slabs would be vertically fastened, the inside being left rough or plastered with mud as desired; and the roofs were of round pine framing covered with rickers (young pine plants) and thatched with snow grass."
• "From the winrows it is drawn usually on rakes of a certain make, and the rake loads thus slid over the ground are lifted bodily onto the stack by the use of the "rickers.""