Tucker: Definition and part of speech

Tucker

  1. v. t. To tire; to weary; — usually with out.
  2. n. One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
  3. n. A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman’s dress in the 17th century and later.
  4. v. t. A fuller.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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