Definition of tuck

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Tuck (v. t.) 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..

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Stick :: Stick (n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck..
Needlebook :: Needlebook (n.) A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck..
Tucet :: Tucet (n.) See Tucket, a steak..
Succinct :: Succinct (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats.
Bedstaff :: Bedstaff (n.) A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side..
Bestuck :: Bestuck () imp. & p. p. Bestick.
Tuck :: Tuck (v. t.) 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..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) A pull; a lugging.
Stuck :: Stuck () imp. & p. p. of Stick.
Tuck-net :: Tuck-net (n.) See Tuck, n., 2..
Sticked :: Stuck (imp. & p. p.) of Stic.
Corsned :: Corsned (n.) The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt..
Lorettine :: Lorettine (n.) One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States..
Tucker :: Tucker (n.) A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later..
Tucker :: Tucker (n.) One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made..
Stick-lac :: Stickit (a.) Stuck; spoiled in making.
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier..
Kentucky :: Kentucky (n.) One of the United States.
Tucket :: Tucket (n.) A steak; a collop.
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