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TUCKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having tucked or being tucked
Example:
a fancy tucked shirt
Classified under:
Antonym:
untucked (lacking tucks or not being tucked)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb tuck
Context examples:
"As sure as this is my girl!" and Laurie tucked her hand under his arm with the air of a man whose every wish was gratified.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When we got in, and had washed our feet, and had said a prayer of thankfulness together, I tucked her into bed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A gilt harp, blotched with many stains and with two of its strings missing, was tucked under one of his arms, while with the other he scooped greedily at his platter.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that she felt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand; but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sitting with the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on one knee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Nor was he disappointed, for that shortsighted woman actually gave him a lump of sugar, tucked him into his bed, and forbade any more promenades till morning.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Round the corner of the narrow street there came rushing a brace of whining dogs with tails tucked under their legs, and after them a white-faced burgher, with outstretched hands and wide-spread fingers, his hair all abristle and his eyes glinting back from one shoulder to the other, as though some great terror were at his very heels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having issued this mandate with as much potentiality as if she had been a recognized authority in the house ever since it had been a house, and having looked out to confront the amazed Peggotty coming along the passage with a candle at the sound of a strange voice, Miss Betsey shut the door again, and sat down as before: with her feet on the fender, the skirt of her dress tucked up, and her hands folded on one knee.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
After that we got on better, and now I read my lessons pretty well, for this way of studying suits me, and I can see that the grammar gets tucked into the tales and poetry as one gives pills in jelly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He sat at a table by the window, a deer-hound on one side of him and a lurcher on the other, his feet tucked away under the trestle on which he sat, and his tongue in his cheek, with the air of a man who is much perplexed.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
