tuck (2), tucke (2)

(TUCK, v.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. A pull, a pulling, a tug. 2 A fold in a dre ; a horizontal fold or plait in a skirt, wide or narrow, and sewn throughout its length. *3. A sort of head-dre ; a turban. "And vpon his head a goodly white tucke , containing in length by estimation fifteene yards." -Hackluyt: Voyayes, ii. 113. 4. A tuck-net (q. v.). "The tuck is narrower meshed, and therefore scarce lawiul with a long bunt in the midst."-Carew. 5. Food, especially sweet stuff, pastry, or the like. ( Slang . ) "The slogger looks rather sodden, as if he didn't take much exercise, and ate too much tuck ."-T. Hughes: Tom Brown's Schooldays , pt. ii., ch. v. ably the altered state of the root of some flowering plant. It consists almost entirely of pectic acid, the chemical substance which, occurring in currants and other fruits, renders it po ible to coagulate them into jelly. Tuckahoo is eaten by the North American Indians, who find it a nutritious food. 2. A derisive name applied by Western Virgin i ans to the natives of tide-water sections of that state.