tuff
1tuff
2- a fragmental rock consisting of the smaller kinds of volcanic detritus, as ash or cinder, usually more or less stratified.
Origin of tuff
2Examples from the Web for tuff
Contemporary Examples of tuff
All of them, Tuff and Kellie and Clyde and Elsie, like to take this wherever they go: He died doing what he wanted to do.
“This is all we live for,” Tuff Hedeman was saying on the Astrodome floor, far removed from Willie and his friends.
Tuff and Tracie and Kellie lost count of the hours they spent waiting on Lane after the rodeos.
Like her last name would suggest, Tuff really has been through a lot.
Tuff cared for Derrick and his older sister, LaVita, while working two or three jobs at a time.
Historical Examples of tuff
Tuff's coat was a heavy blue one that did for an overcoat, too.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New YorkLemuel Ely Quigg
Eocene, miocene, pliocene Tuff, Lias and Trias and that is enough.
The Book of Humorous VerseVarious
Some are of lava, others consist of ashes, still others of tuff and lava and ashes.
The Andes of Southern PeruIsaiah Bowman
On one side of the fountain a semicircular bench of tuff and terracotta.
Mogens and Other StoriesJens Peter Jacobsen
That tuff he considers a product of the latest eruption of the volcano.
The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of ManCharles Lyell
tuff
- a rock formed by the fusing together on the ground of small rock fragments (less than 2 mm across) ejected from a volcano
Word Origin for tuff
Word Origin and History for tuff
advertiser's spelling of tough (adj.), attested by 1940.
tuff
- A rock made up of particles of volcanic ash, varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.