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
Oh! you speak out lout enouf, ant plain enouf, and I shoultn't wonter if you got tucket up yourself, one tay, for your pains.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
When the head of the column reached the edge of the gloomy forest a tucket sounded and the soldiers came to a halt.
From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
There was a strange air over it all, like the breathless moment in a tourney when the tucket has blown and the knights pause before giving spur.
From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge
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