A stack of hay, straw, or similar material, especially when covered or thatched for protection from the weather, A heap or pile; specifically, a pile of hay or grain, generally cylindrical, with the top rounded or conical, and sometimes thatched for protection from rain, a stack of hay, verb_ pile in ricks, twist suddenly so as to sprain, To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks, transitive verb_ To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc, To pile into ricks