tub-wheel 
tub- wheel (tub'hwel), . 1. A form of water- 
wheel which has a vertical axis and radial spi- 
ral floats placed between 
two cases attached to the 
axis. The water is precipi- 
tated between the cases from 
a chute, and is discharged at 
the bottom of the wheel. M. 
H. Knight. 2. In tannini/, 
a hollow revolving drum in 
which skins or leather are 
washed by being tumbled in 
water. Similar wheels are Tub-wneei, i. 
used in other industries. 
tucan (to'kan), w. [< Mex. tucan (Hernandez).] 
The Mexican pocket-gopher, Geomys mexicanus. 
It is one of the largest gophers, 10 or 11 inches long, or, 
with the tail, from 13 to 14 inches, and resembles the qua- 
chil, but has soft, sleek fur. The incisors are each bisect- 
ed by a single median furrow, which distinguishes the ani- 
mal from all United States gophers except B. castanops. 
The tail and feet are clothed as usual in the genus. The 
coloration is a pure chestnut-brown, the hind feet and tail 
are mostly whitish, and sometimes there are small white 
patches on the under parts. The under fur is plumbeous, 
and some specimens vary from the normal chestnut to a 
plumbago or anthracite color. Also tugan, tuca, tuza. 
Tucana (tu-ka'ua), n. [NL., < toucan, q. v.] 
1. A southern constellation, the Toucan, south 
of the Phoanix, made by Petrus Theodori in 
the fifteenth century. 2. In ornith., same as 
Eamphastos. Brisson, 1760. 
tucett (tu'set), n. [< L. tucetum, tuccetum, a thick 
gravy: see tucket' 2 ."] A steak. See tucket^. 
The Cisalpine tucets or gobbets of condited bull's flesh. 
Jer. Taylor, Sermons (1663), p. 212. {Latham.) 
tucht, n. An obsolete spelling of touch. 
tuck 1 (tuk), v. [< ME. tucken, tukken, also touken; 
partly < AS. tucian, pull, pluck, full (cloth); 
partly < MLG. tucken, LG. tukken, tokken, pull 
up, draw up, tuck up, also entice, LG. also 
tnken, wrinkle, as a badly made garment, = MD. 
tocken, entice, = OHG. zuechen, zukken, MHG. 
G. zueken, ziicken, draw in , draw together, shrug, 
etc. ; a secondary form of the verb represented 
by AS. teon (pret. tedh, pi. tut/on) = OS. Mohan 
= MLG. tien, ten, LG. teen = OHG. ziohen, 
MHG. G. ziehen = Goth, tiuhan, draw : see tee 1 , 
and cf. tow 1 , tng, tick 1 , touch. Hence tucker 1 , 
tucker'^. ~\ I. trans. 1. To draw close together; 
pull together. Specifically (a) To thicken ; full : said 
of cloth. Compare tucking-mill. [Now prov. Eng. ] 
Cloth that cometh fro the weuyng is noust comly to were 
Tyl it is fulled vnder fote, or in fullyng-stokkes, . . . 
Ytouked, and ytented. Piers Plowman (B), xv. 447. 
(6) To gather up; draw or pull up, or in any direction; 
draw into folds : frequently followed by up. 
And you tucke nat your gowne rounde aboute you, you 
shall be daggled by yonde all mercy. Palsgrave, p. 763. 
They tuck up the skirts of their coats when they fight 
or march. Sandys, Travailes, p. 38. 
She tuckt her girdle about her middle, 
And ranne close by his side. 
The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter (Child's Ballads, III. 
[262). 
So, Dick Adept tuck back thy Hair ; 
And I will pour into thy Ear 
Remarks, which none did e'er disclose. 
Prior, Alma, iii. 
(e) In needlework, to lay and sew tucks in : as, the waist 
was tucked lengthwise. See tuckl, n., 2. 
2. To press or crowd into a narrow space or 
compass; stuff; cram. 
I ... carry pistols about me, which I have always 
tucked within my girdle. Steele, Tatler, No. 164. 
They [footmen] would come to an honest labourer's cot- 
tage, eat his pancakes, tuck his fowls into their pockets, 
and cane the poor man himself. 
Macaulay, St. Denis and St. George. 
The little cushions tucked in around her spine were of 
silk-covered eider-down. The Century, XL. 269. 
Hence 3. To pack in barrels. [Prov. Eng.] 
186 hogsheads [of pilchards] were tucked on Sunday. 
Morning Chronicle, Aug. 28, 1857. (Encyc. Diet.) 
4. To gird ; clothe tightly or compactly ; hence, 
to cover snugly with wrappings, as with bed- 
clothes or rugs. 
He departed from Blaase and com to Bredigan, and he 
was tukked, and on his heede a felt, and bar a longe staff 
on his bakke, and he was sklender and lene. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 279. 
A bonnie lasse she was, verye well tuckt up in a russet 
petticoate. Greene's Vision. 
The pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable 
pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust. 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 428. 
5. To put into one's stomach ; eat : usually with 
in. [Slang.] 6. In seine-fishing, to gather or 
draw (fish) out of a seine by means of a tuck- 
seine which is shot inside of the seine. 
Tucking the flsh is the next operation, and this is per- 
formed with the tuck-seau, which we described as being 
very deep in the middle. Encyc. Brit., IX. 264 
6522 
7f. To pinch ; nip ; wound by the pressure of 
the finger-nail. 
If any of the Freshmen came off dull, or not cleverly 
[in speaking], some of the forward or pragmatical Seniors 
would Tuck them that is, set the nail of their Thumb to 
their chin, just under the Lipp, and by the help of their 
other Fingers under the Chin they would give him a 
Mark which sometimes would produce Blood. 
Life of A. Wood (by himself), p. 46. 
To tuck up. (a) To gather or draw up. (6) To string up ; 
hang. [Slang.] 
I never saw an execution but once, and then the hang- 
man asked the poor creature's pardon, and wiped his 
mouth as you do, and pleaded his duty, and then calmly 
tucked up the criminal. 
Richardson, Pamela, 1. 141. (Davies.) 
II. intrans. 1. To contract; draw together. 
An ulcer discharging a nasty thin ichor, the edges tuck 
in, and, growing skinned and hard, give it the name of a 
callous ulcer. Sharp, Surgery. 
2. To make tucks : as, a sewing-machine that 
tucks and gathers. 
tuck 1 (tuk), n. [< tuck 1 , v.~\ If. A garment 
tucked, girt, or wrapped about one ; in the fol- 
lowing quotation, a turban. 
Vpon his head a goodly white tucke, containing in length 
by estimation flfteene yards. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 113. 
2. In needlework, a flat fold in a fabric, or in a 
part of a garment, fixed in place by stitches, 
and frequently one of a series laid parallel. 
Tucks are used either by way of decoration, or in order 
to dispose of extra material in a garment, with a view to 
letting it out as the wearer grows or as the fabric shrinks. 
3. A short pinafore. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
4. In bookbinding, a flap on one side of the 
cover, made to fold over the other side and tuck 
into a strap which holds it fast. 5. A kind of 
net. 
The Tucke ... is narrower meashed, and (therefore 
scarce lawfull) with a long bunt in the midst. 
S. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, fol. 30. 
6f. A pinch ; a nip. See the quotation under 
tuck 1 , v. t., 7. 
If dull, nothing was given to him [the freshman] but 
salted Drink, . . . with tucks to boot. 
Life of A. Wood (by himselfX p. 46. 
7. Naut., that part of a vessel where the after 
ends of the outside planking come together 
under the stern. 8. Eatables; viands; es- 
pecially, sweets or pastry. Also tucker, in Aus- 
tralia. [Slang.] 
Nothing can stop the mouth of a (efr-huuter. 
A. Bunn, The Stage, I. 295. 
The Slogger looks rather sodden, as if he didn't take 
much exercise and ate too much tuck. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 5. 
9. An appetite. Halliwell. [Slang.] Nip and 
tuck. See ni.pl. 
tuck 2 (tuk), n. [< OF. estoc, a rapier, also the 
stock of a tree, also a thrust (see tuck^), = It. 
stocco, a truncheon, short sword, tuck : see 
stoek%, stuck 3 . For the form tuck, < OF. estoc, cf. 
ticket, < OF. *estiquet, etiquet.] A rapier. See 
estoc. 
That wicked pernicious fashion to fight in the fields in 
duels with a rapier called a tucke only for the thrust. 
Darcie, Annals of Elizabeth, quoted in Encyc. Brit., IX. 70. 
Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy 
assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. 
Shak.,T. N.,iii. 4. 244. 
Now with their long Tucks thrusting at the face, now 
with their piked Targets bearing them down. 
Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
tuck 3 (tuk), n. [< ME. tuk (Sc. tuick, touk), < 
OF. estoc, a thrust, = Olt. tocco, a knock, stroke, 
as on a bell, peal of a bell; cf. tuck 2 , tucket 1 , 
andficfc 1 .] 1. A blow; a stroke; a tap; a beat; 
especially, the beating of a drum. See beat or 
tuck of drum, under beat 1 . [Scotch.] 
Hercules it smytis with ane mychty touk. 
O. Douglas, tr. of Virgil, p. 249. 
Panmuir with all his men did cum, 
The provost of braif Aberdene, 
With trumpets and with tuick of drum, 
Came schortly in thair armour schene. 
Battle of Barlaw (Child's Ballads, VII. 185). 
So gallantly you come, 
I read you for a bold Dragoon, 
That lists the tuck of drum. 
Scott, Kokeby, iii. 17. 
2. A blast; a flourish; a tucket. 
With the tuk of a trump, all his tore knightes 
He assemblit full sone. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7107. 
Wherever death has his red flag a flying, and sounds his 
own potent tuck upon the cannons. 
R. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 101. 
tuck 3 (tuk), v. i. [< tuckS, n.] To beat; tap: 
said of a drum. 
The armies met, the trumpet sounds, 
The dandring drums alloud did touk. 
Battle of Harlaw (Chad's Ballads, VII. 188). 
tuckahoe (tuk'a-ho), n. [Formerly also tockaw- 
hough ; from an Amer. Ind. name represented 
tucker 
by Delaware ptucqui, a (round) loaf or cake, < 
petukqui, Cree pettikwow, round, globular.] If. 
Formerly, either of the plants the Virginia 
wake-robin, I'eltandra undulata (P. Virginica, 
once Arum Virginicum), and the golden-club, 
Orontium aquaticum, both aquatics with deep 
fleshy and starchy rootstocks, which, rendered 
edible by cooking, were used by the Indians of 
Virginia as food. 
They [the aborigines of Virginia) haue two roots ; . . . 
the other called Tockawhouyh, growing like a flagge, of 
the greatnes and taste of a Potato, which passeth a fiery 
purgation before they may eate it, being poyson whiles it 
is raw. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 761. 
2. A subterranean fungus, Pocfcyma Cocos,other- 
wise known as Indian bread, Indian head, and In- 
dian loaf, found widely in the southern United 
States. It grows in light loamy soils on old roots as a 
saprophyte, or perhaps a parasite. Its size, form , and bark- 
like exterior give it the outward appearance of a cocoa- 
a b c 
Tuckahoe (Pachyma Cocas). 
a, a root with growth of tuckahoe ; t', mass of tuckahoe ; 
c, microscopical section of the same. 
nut; within it presents a compact white mass without 
apparent structure. When first taken from the ground, 
it is moist and yielding; but in drying the white sub- 
stance becomes very hard, cracking from within. It is 
entirely tasteless, insoluble in water, without starch, and 
is composed in large measure of pectose. 
tuck-creaser (tuk'kre"ser), u. An attachment 
to a sewing-machine which creases the fabric 
as it passes through the machine, in order to 
make a guiding line for the next tuck. It 
usually consists essentially of an adjustable 
spring-bar. 
tucked (tukt), p. a. [Also tuckt; < ME. tukked; 
pp. of tuck 1 , .] Treated, affected, or arranged 
in any manner noted by the verb tuck 1 . 
A short tuckt garment of flame-colour. 
B. Jonson, King James's Coronation Entertainment. 
Tucked up. (a) Having the clothes drawn up so as to 
clear the ground. 
The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, 
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. 
Swift, A City Shower. 
(6) Hung high in the stock, so that the top is above the 
pivots or gudgeons : noting large bells. 
It is difficult to set a much tucked-up bell tolling, though 
easy to keep it up afterwards. 
Sir E. Beckett, Clocks, Watches, and Bells, p. 380. 
(c) Contracted; narrow: as, a tucked-up room. [Colloq.] 
(d) Cramped. [Colloq.] 
If a man is riding an ordinary fifty-eight inch roadster, 
it is clear that a closely built fifty-eight inch racer will be 
noticeably too short in the reach for him, and he will feel 
that he is what cyclists call "tucked up," "cramped," or 
"going short." Bury and Hillier, Cycling, p. 189. 
tucker 1 ! (tuk'er), . [< ME. "tucker, tokker, 
touker, towker, tuker, toucher, a fuller, < tuken, < 
AS. tucian, pluck, pull, tease, f ull : see tuck 1 . ] A 
fuller. 
Wollene websteris and weueris of lynen, 
Taillours, tanneris, & tokkeris bothe. 
Piers Plowman (A), Prol.. 1. 100. 
tucker 2 (tuk'er), . [< tuck 1 + -er 1 .] 1. One 
who or that which 
tucks. 2. A piece 
of linen, lace, or 
other delicate fab- 
ric, covering the 
neck and shoul- 
ders of a woman 
above the top of the 
bodice. Its form va- 
ried greatly at different 
times from the middle 
of the seventeenth till 
the middle of the eigh- 
teenth century; it was 
sometimes drawn close 
with a string passed 
through a hem at the 
top, and sometimes was 
merely arranged like a 
kerchief, the two ends 
Tucker, isth century. being crossed and 
