tucket
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tucket
Example Sentences
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Aranson seems almost to have been born on the wharves of Nan tucket.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surrounded by 200 friends in a Fifth Avenue radio-studio, Governor Smith sounded a party tucket to a donkey by no means deceased.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the Colonel took to annotating his book at the side with such remarks as, "Enter Saloonio," or "A tucket sounds; enter Saloonio, on the arm of the Prince of Morocco."
From Literary Lapses by Leacock, Stephen
Fr. toquer, to tap, beat, cognate with touch, survives in "tuck of drum" and tucket— "Then let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
When the vanguard reached the foot of the hill, a bowshot from where the watchers sat in their little craft, a tucket sounded and the company halted.
From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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