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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Needlebook :: Needlebook (n.) A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck..
Teetuck :: Teetuck (n.) The rock pipit.
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 (v. i.) To contract; to draw together.
Bestuck :: Bestuck (imp. & p. p.) of Bestic.
Kilted :: Kilted (a.) Tucked or fastened up; -- said of petticoats, etc..
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..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The beat of a drum.
Trappist :: Trappist (n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats.
Untuck :: Untuck (v. t.) To unfold or undo, as a tuck; to release from a tuck or fold..
Bestuck :: Bestuck () imp. & p. p. Bestick.
Stuck-up :: Stuckle (n.) A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.
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..
Tuck :: Tuck (v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress..
Pincushion :: Pincushion (n.) A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use..
Patch :: Patch (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty..
Terminus :: Terminus (n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line..
Poa :: Poa (n.) A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see)..
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..
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