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  • verb Present participle of rice.

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Examples

  • The term ricing comes from "rice burners" which is a wonderful mild racial slur made by pro-american car owners who love to have their crappy rustheaps fall apart beneath them while feeling prideful that they bought that "American Made" crapheap in the first place.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: June 9, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The term ricing comes from "rice burners" which is a wonderful mild racial slur made by pro-american car owners who love to have their crappy rustheaps fall apart beneath them while feeling prideful that they bought that "American Made" crapheap in the first place.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: June 2003 Archives 2003

  • The term ricing comes from "rice burners" which is a wonderful mild racial slur made by pro-american car owners who love to have their crappy rustheaps fall apart beneath them while feeling prideful that they bought that "American Made" crapheap in the first place.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: Riced out ... Garbage Trucks 2003

  • For at least 25 years I've been turning to James Beard's classic recipe for potato gnocchi, but now that I've made Ethan Stowell's -- which calls ricing the potatoes rather than mashing them -- I've decided

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • May 19, 2009 at 8: 44 AM the rice trick worked for me twice with the same phone. first time after it was in the washing machine for 15 minutes. worked perfectly after 4 days of ricing it. then i dropped it in a lake and riced it. it worked perfect for about a month then the screen became flaky.

    Use Cat Litter To Save Your Doused Phone | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • May 19, 2009 at 8:44 AM the rice trick worked for me twice with the same phone. first time after it was in the washing machine for 15 minutes. worked perfectly after 4 days of ricing it. then i dropped it in a lake and riced it. it worked perfect for about a month then the screen became flaky.

    Use Cat Litter To Save Your Doused Phone | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • It was a cool morning in late August, manoominike-giizis, the month of ricing, and the ride into the woods chilled Henry.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • It was a cool morning in late August, manoominike-giizis, the month of ricing, and the ride into the woods chilled Henry.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • I found that the colour was certainly interesting, but I wasn't that impressed with the congos - they were much harder to peel than the kipflers, and even after ricing they were quite lumpy - and many of them weren't purple all the way through, just on the edges.

    Presto Pasta Night #30 Haalo 2007

  • It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and move to their cozy cedar log cabins near the town of

    The Game of Silence: Summary and book reviews of The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich. 2005

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  • Collecting wild rice by canoe as is/was done by native Americans, or by other conveyance. Does not, in this sense mean harvesting of rice grown in paddies.

    February 8, 2010