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Definition of Tuck away
1. Verb. Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food. "They tuck away more bread"; "My son tucked in a whole pizza"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuck Away
Literary usage of Tuck away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Workshop Receipts, for Manufacturers and Scientific Amateurs by Ernest Spon, Robert Haldane, Charles George Warnford Lock (1909)
"Now, without taking out the spike, tuck away strand No. i) behind the spike ...
Then insert spike in next strand, and tuck away strand No. ..."
2. Dreer's Hints on the Growing of Bulbs by Henry A. Dreer, Ida Dandridge Bennett (1914)
"Then, wherever the roots of a tree project along the ground I tuck away a line
... "In planting, lift the sod with the trowel, tuck away a few bulbs snugly ..."
3. Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar Essays by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1867)
"At last, they started, and these are the words that one of them spoke: " Come,
Bob, let's go over and see if we can't tuck away some of that grub. ..."
4. Aircraft and Automobile Materials of Construction by Arthur William Judge (1920)
"Now, without taking out the spike, tuck away strand No. 3, behind the spike towards
... 200. insert the spike in the next strand, and tuck away strand No. ..."
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