tucket
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tucket
Example Sentences
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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
Aranson seems almost to have been born on the wharves of Nan tucket.
From Time Magazine Archive
By this time the tucket was sounding cheerily in the morning, and from all sides Sir Daniel’s men poured into the main street and formed before the inn.
From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Now, even as he spake came the sound of a distant tucket, the great gates of Belsaye swung wide, and forth rode a company of men-at-arms, their bascinets agleam 'neath the moon.
From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery
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
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