subs. (common).—An uproar.—HALLIWELL (1847).
1833. NEAL, The Down-Easters, II. 14. Ryled, all over, inside and out. Ryled? To be sure!—RUCTIOUS.
1884. Echo, 19 March, 2, 3. The police, when there is a RUCTION, drop quietly over a wall into the midst of the combatants.
1894. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 29 March, 4, 7. The RUCTIONS at the Freeman meeting yesterday.
1900. PERCY WHITE, The West End, 119. ‘RUCTIONS’ took place … and … he went so far as to tell his wife that “he didn’t care a damn what she did.”
