Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tucking"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tuck \Tuck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tucked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tucking}.] [OE. tukken, LG. tukken to pull up, tuck up,
entice; akin to OD. tocken to entice, G. zucken to draw with
a short and quick motion, and E. tug. See {Tug}.]
1. To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a
narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck
up one's sleeves.
2. To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.
3. To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place;
as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's
arm, or into a pocket.
4. [Perhaps originally, to strike, beat: cf. F. toquer to
touch. Cf. {Tocsin}.] To full, as cloth. [Prov. Eng.]
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