Tucking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TUCKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• push, fold, or turn (the edges or ends of something, especially a garment or bedclothes) so as to hide or secure them
• make someone, especially a child, comfortable in bed by pulling the edges of the bedclothes firmly under the mattress
• put or keep (something) in a specified place so as to be hidden, secure, comfortable, or tidy
• make a flattened, stitched fold in (a garment or material), typically so as to shorten or tighten it, or for decoration
• draw (something, especially part of one's body) together into a small space
NOUN:
• a collection of tucks
• a flattened, stitched fold in a garment or material, typically one of several parallel folds put in to improve the fit or for decoration
• a surgical operation to reduce surplus flesh or fat
• food eaten by children at school as a snack
• (in diving, gymnastics, downhill skiing, etc.) a position with the knees bent and held close to the chest, often with the hands clasped round the shins
• act of tucking
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fold under
• a series of stitched folds in a garment

Words related to TUCKING

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Words that contain TUCKING

tuckings15 untucking16 pintucking19 pintuckings20

How to use TUCKING in a sentence

• Another night she carried home a small bottle, tucking it beneath her coat as she emerged to the street.
• Should the fowl be very large and old, draw the sinews of the legs before tucking them in.
• Suzanne came into his arms, tucking her head against his shoulder.
• A blue coverlet was wrapped around them, and he was tucking it in on her side.
• Everything seemed quiet, and so, tucking her skirts high about her, Mrs.
• Going forward again, he found Roy tucking into an enormous breakfast with every evidence of enjoyment.
• While he was enjoying the aroma of the meal before tucking into it, Steve brought in the coffee.
• Tucking it under my arm, I closed the door and tiptoed downstairs, let myself out at the back, and stole out to the summer-house.
• Blakeston, tucking up her sleeves and savagely glaring at her opponent.
• As she looked she drew one hand wearily across her forehead, tucking back a vagrant strand of dusky hair.
• We were all tucking it away as only hungry boys can, when some one complained that caterpillars were dropping from the tree into his bowl.
• The moon rose higher, tucking the shadows ever more closely against the precipices.
• She drew a sudden, deep breath and sat erect, tucking back some stray wisps of hair from her forehead.
• At last one of them overtook the horse and rider, and the mare stopped short, thrusting her head between her front legs and tucking in her flowing tail.
• Then, as she lay back, he spread the curtain over her, tucking it close round her young body.
• He was tucking a keen-edged hatchet under the pack lashing.
• You will note that I have abstained from hauling the sun above the eastern Sierras in the morning, and from tucking it under the Pacific at night.
• Jean had left her some time before and was busy tucking her violin away more securely in its wrapping of silk.
• After tucking a large silk handkerchief about the eggs to insure their safety, she sat down on the ledge to look about her.
• At eighteen she was earning seven dollars a week as a skilled operator on a tucking machine.
• Tucking muslin underwear is dull work, but it is, in most ways, a more agreeable task than icing cakes in a St.
• Edge a plate with uniform sized leaves of foliage plant of the same tints as the fruit, and pile the fruit artistically upon it, tucking sprays or tips of the plant between.
• He had straightened up again, in almost no time, tucking the handkerchief again inside his blouse.
• Bromley put my coat over my head and shoulders, tucking it well in around me, so no light could shine through.
• This report Cantor folded carefully, tucking it away in an inner pocket of his undress blouse.
• She caught her hair in briers and laughed, tucking it up from falling, and brought off two great roses, each the head and the strength of a stem, to lay beside our plates.
• He usually remembered women who looked at him like that, tucking them away in his mental list to be investigated later.
• Hopkins was also standing just outside the shop, putting a wrap round the old lady and tucking her up.
• Tucking her hand in my arm, she walked with me to the Parish House gate.

Similar words containing TUCK without suffix ing

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