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tucking |
1 definition found 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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