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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tuck \Tuck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tucked}; p. pr & vb n.
{Tucking}.] [OE. tukken LG tukken to pull up tuck up
entice; akin to OD tocken to entice, G. zucken to draw with
a short and quick motion, and E. tug. See {Tug}.]
1. To draw up to shorten; to fold under to press into a
narrower compass; as to tuck the bedclothes in to tuck
up one's sleeves.
2. To make a tuck or tucks in as to tuck a dress.
3. To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place
as to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's
arm, or into a pocket.
4. [Perhaps originally, to strike, beat: cf F. toquer to
touch. Cf {Tocsin}.] To full, as cloth. [Prov. Eng.]
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