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Tuck   /tək/   Listen
Tuck

verb
(past & past part. tucked; pres. part. tucking)
1.
Fit snugly into.  Synonym: insert.  "Tuck your shirttail in"
2.
Make a tuck or several folds in.  "Tuck in the sheet"
3.
Draw together into folds or puckers.  Synonyms: gather, pucker.
noun
1.
Eatables (especially sweets).
2.
(sports) a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest.
3.
A narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place.
4.
A straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges.  Synonym: rapier.



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"Tuck" Quotes from Famous Books



... are, all neat and tidy, my dear," said the keeper. "Now I must just tuck you away in the hollow tree before old Grampus sneaks round and sees you, for if he should it will be almost as much as my place ...
— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard
... softly, as she touched a bronze striped calyx, "I'd like to know how I am to penetrate your location, and find and fashion anything to outdo you and the squaw, you wood creatures you!" Then she bent above the flowers and whispered: "Tuck this in the toe of your slipper! Three times to-night it was in his eyes, and on his tongue, but his slowness let the moment pass. I can 'bide a wee' for my Scotsman, I can bide forever, if I must; for it's ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... the edge of her white skirt. She followed the woman's instinct to tuck it safely under her before making demure answer. "Captain Kilmeny is his own certificate of merit. Any praise ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine
... a meditative humour, and at sea used often to mount aloft at night, and seating myself on one of the upper yards, tuck my jacket about me and give loose to reflection. In some ships in which. I have done this, the sailors used to fancy that I must be studying astronomy—which, indeed, to some extent, was the case—and ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... felt exceedingly queer; He thought it a very odd thing That his head and his voice were he did not know where, And his gizzard tuck'd ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton


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