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Webster 1913 Edition

Tuck

Tuck

,
Noun.
[F.
estoc
; cf. It.
stocco
; both of German origin, and akin to E.
stock
. See
Stock
.]
A long, narrow sword; a rapier.
[Obs.]
Shak.
He wore large hose, and a
tuck
, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.
Sir W. Scot.

Tuck

,
Noun.
[Cf.
Tocsin
.]
The beat of a drum.
Scot.

Tuck

,
Verb.
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.]

Tuck

,
Verb.
I.
To contract; to draw together.
[Obs.]

Tuck

,
Noun.
1.
A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.
2.
A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; – called also
tuck-net
.
3.
A pull; a lugging.
[Obs.]
See
Tug
.
Life of A. Wood.
4.
(Naut.)
The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
5.
Food; pastry; sweetmeats.
[Slang]
T. Hughes.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tuck

TUCK

, n.
1.
A long narrow sword.
2.
A kind of net.
3.
[from the verb following.] In a ship, the part where the ends of the bottom planks are collected under the stern.
4.
A fold; a pull; a lugging. [See Tug.]

TUCK

,
Verb.
T.
[In some parts of England, this verb signifies to full, as cloth.]
1.
To thrust or press in or together; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck up a bed; to tuck up a garment; to tuck in the skirt of anything.
2.
To inclose by tucking close around; as, to tuck a child into a bed.
3.
To full, as cloth. [Local.]

TUCK

,
Verb.
I.
To contract; to draw together. [Not in use.]

Definition 2025

tuck

tuck

English

Verb

tuck ‎(third-person singular simple present tucks, present participle tucking, simple past and past participle tucked)

  1. (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). [From 14thc.]
  2. (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden. [From 1580s.]
    Tuck in your shirt.  I tucked in the sheet.  He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket.‎
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  3. (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume. [From 1780s.]
  4. (ergative) To fit neatly.
    The sofa tucks nicely into that corner.  Kenwood House is tucked into a corner of Hampstead Heath.‎
  5. To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
    The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.‎
  6. To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
    to tuck a dress‎
  7. To full, as cloth.
  8. (LGBT, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) To conceal one’s genitals, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
    Honey, have you tucked today? We don’t wanna see anything nasty down there.‎
  9. (when playing scales on piano keys) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

tuck ‎(plural tucks)

A diver in the tuck position.
A skier in tuck position.
  1. An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. [From late 14thC.]
  2. (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
  3. A curled position.
  4. (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
  5. (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
  6. (diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French estoc ‎(“rapier”), from Italian stocco ‎(“a truncheon, a short sword”)

Noun

tuck ‎(plural tucks)

  1. (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
    • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
      [...] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck [...]
    • 1601, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Act III, Scene I.
      [...] dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. [...]
    • Sir Walter Scott
      He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.
Translations

Etymology 3

Compare tocsin.

Noun

tuck ‎(plural tucks)

  1. The beat of a drum.

Etymology 4

Old Provençal tuc ‎(“uncooked”).

Noun

tuck ‎(uncountable)

  1. Food, especially snack food.
Derived terms

Manx

Verb

tuck ‎(verbal noun tuckal, past participle tuckit)

  1. to full (cloth)

Synonyms

Etymology

From Middle English tuken, touken ‎(“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian ‎(“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken ‎(“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- ‎(“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- ‎(“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen ‎(“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn ‎(“to jerk”), Old English tēon ‎(“to draw, pull, train”). More at touch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰʌk/
  • Rhymes: -ʌk

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