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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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