Definition of tuck

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Tuck (v. i.) To contract; to draw together.

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Untuck :: Untuck (v. t.) To unfold or undo, as a tuck; to release from a tuck or fold..
Attachment :: Attachment (n.) Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.)..
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..
Stuckle :: Stuck (n.) A thrust.
Patch :: Patch (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty..
Kilt :: Kilt (v. t.) To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes..
Teetuck :: Teetuck (n.) The rock pipit.
Dangleberry :: Dangleberry (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward..
Gymnocladus :: Gymnocladus (n.) A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee..
Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself..
Stick-lac :: Stickit (a.) Stuck; spoiled in making.
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..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The beat of a drum.
Triangle :: Triangle (n.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused..
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..
Tucked :: Tucked (imp. & p. p.) of Tuc.
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..
Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Tuck-net :: Tuck-net (n.) See Tuck, n., 2..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier..
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