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Definition of Tuckering
1. tucker [v] - See also: tucker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuckering
Literary usage of Tuckering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice: A Manual of Shop Practice, Pattern edited by Howard Monroe Raymond (1906)
"Since the tuckering of the lamp is dependent upon the difference in frequency,
... should not be thrown in parallel while this tuckering exists. ..."
2. The Hop; Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture: A Practical by Herbert Myrick (1899)
"(10) tuckering—The surplus vines that are not used for hop bearing are pulled out.
... tuckering is done in order to throw the strength of the root into the ..."
3. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1900)
"... drowning all light, wiping out all beauty, extinguishing all joy, pierced here
and there by the glitter of the sword and by the tuckering of torches, ..."
4. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"... will be in their full growth ; the planters prune oif the fuckers, and clean
them of the horn-worm twice a week, which is called worming and tuckering ..."
5. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"LIFE OF SIR JOHN tuckering, LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEAL. CHAP. THE Queen heard
of the death of Sir Christopher Hatton XLVI' in the evening of the 20th of ..."
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