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Definition of Tuckets
1. tucket [n] - See also: tucket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuckets
Literary usage of Tuckets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Mau^tU* Bring hither tuckets, candied delicate«, We'll faite some sweetmeat«,
gallants, ... Vi,*.,-f--T> tThe one well fild with tuckets, and sweet юм:ч. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"See HUTS, or tuckets. Bur, (1) an impediment; an annoyance ; (2) the drag-chain
... Burs, or tuckets, s. pi. the hc.iils of thistles after flowering-time ..."
3. A History of the Town of Keene from 1732: When the Township was Granted by by Simon Goodell Griffin, Frank H. Whitcomb, Octavius Applegate (1904)
"The Paw- tuckets were below, and these three tribes, ... with some others, formed
at one time a confederacy under the general name of Paw- tuckets, ..."
4. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"At the same time, answering tuckets repeated and repeated Hatch's call. " Rally,
rally! " cried Dick. " Rally upon me! Rally for your lives! ..."
5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... 'Two tuckets by several trumpets.' The word is clearly derived from the Italian
Toccata, which Florio (A Worlde of W ardes, 1598) translates 'a touch, ..."
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