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▪ I. tucker, n.1|ˈtʌkə(r)|
Forms: 4 toukere, 5 tokker, (toucher), towkere, 5–6 towker, touker, toker, (6 towcker, toukar, toocker, tooker, tukkar), 6– tucker.
[f. tuck v.1 + -er1.]
1. One whose occupation is the fulling and dressing of cloth; a fuller; a cloth-finisher. Obs. exc. dial. Perh. originally one who burled or teased the cloth.
tucker's earth, fuller's earth.
[1273Hundred Rolls, Dorset, Roger le Tukere. 13..Fine Rolls, Nicholas le Tokere.] 1388Wyclif 2 Kings xviii. 17 The water cundijt of the hiȝere cisterne,..in the weie of the fullere, [gloss] ethir toukere [1382 the fullers feeld]. c1475Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 285 A ordynaunce, for spynners, carders, wevers, also, Ffor toukers, dyers, and schermyn. 1496Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 344 To my wevers and tokers thorow the towne xij d a pece. 1506Will of Abadam (Somerset Ho.), Tucker's schers. 1545Elyot, Gnafos, a tesyll, whiche toukars do vse. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1231 [Crœsus] caught one of the nobles,.. and within a fullers mill all to beclawed and mangled him with tuckers cards and burling combs. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. ii. 4 Tuckers or Fullers Earth. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 174 Where errant pedlers, mercinarie slaues, Tinkers and Tookers and such idle knaues. 1636in E. Owen Catal. MSS. relating to Wales in Brit. Mus. (1908) 724 Ground for the erection of..tentors or tucker's rackes. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xx. (1841) I. 193 Cloth-workers, tuckers, and merchants. 1837Whittock, etc. Bk. Trades (1842) 253 Wool could not be spun without being combed in oil; nor would it take the dye when woven, unless divested of the oil. This is the proper business of the Fuller;..provincially called, the Tucker. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Tucker, one who mills, or fulls and finishes cloth... Probably the entire finishing of the cloth, from the time it left the weaver, was performed by the tucker at the tucking-mills.
†2. An instrument for tucking or plucking; pair of tuckers, tweezers. Obs. rare—1.
1658tr. Porta's Nat. Magic iv. x. 133 Tuck away the dry, and withered, and rotten grapes with a pair of tuckers.
3. A piece of lace or the like, worn by women within or around the top of the bodice in the 17–18th c.; a frill of lace worn round the neck. best bib and tucker: see bib n.1 b.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 17/1 A Pinner or Tucker, is a narrow piece of Cloth..which compasseth the top of a Womans Gown about the Neck part. 1710Lady G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 204 For musline for night cloathes, ruffles, tuckers, etc. {pstlg}3. 4. 0. 1793J. Williams Life Ld. Barrymore 67 The Butcher's Lady thinks, that living in style, is manifested in putting on her best bib and tucker on holidays. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre vii, Some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week;..the rules limit them to one. 1875[see bib n.1 b]. 1881E. F. Poynter Among Hills I. 150 Pulling out her white tucker round her white throat.
4. One who tucks; in quot. in sense 9.
1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 3) s.v. Tucked up, A tucker up to an old bachelor or widower; a supposed mistress.
5. Needlework. One who makes or ‘runs’ tucks; the device in a sewing-machine which does this.
1905Daily Chron. 11 Aug. 10/7 Machinists.., shirts and blouses; also a few vacancies for tuckers.
6. [f. tuck n.1 6 or v.1 10.] The daily supply of food of a gold-digger or station-hand; rations, meals; also, food generally, victuals: = tuck n.1 6 b. to earn or make one's tucker, to earn merely enough to pay for one's keep. Austral. and N.Z. slang.
1858Morn. Chron. 31 Aug. (Farmer), Diggers, who have great difficulty in making their tucker at digging. 1864J. C. Richmond Let. 12 May in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 111 It is very hard work humping your blankets and tucker. 1874G. Walch Head over Heels 73 For want of more nourishing tucker, I believe they'd have eaten him. 1883A. Forbes in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 606 A peer's son who is earning his ‘tucker’ as a station cook in New Zealand. 1898M. Davitt Life & Progr. Australia xl. 275 A pound of a week, including lodgings and ‘tucker’. 1911W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush xxi. 275 If they had obtained no wages for the first six months or so, they would have obtained their ‘tucker’ free. 1972M. Shadbolt Strangers & Journeys iii. 43 Later Ned got the tucker cooking. It was stew and spud, like most nights.
attrib.1870Append. Jrnls. House Representatives N.Z. D. xl. 4 Tucker Flat..has been looked upon as containing worse than ‘tucker’ ground. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right iv, Cyrus and Joe will go splitting or fencing..to pay the tucker-bill. 1902H. Lawson Children of Bush 88 There's some women that can never see a tucker-bag, even if you hold it right under their noses. 1902Westm. Gaz. 30 July 2/1 Weird dishes in which every ingredient in the ‘tucker box’ struggles for mastery. 1904Daily Chron. 21 Mar. 5/5 It is no time to be mealy-mouthed when capitalists..want slave workers at tucker wages.
Hence ˈtuckerless a. (Austral. and N.Z. slang), without food.
1937E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness x. 82 The rind of the pods..makes an acrid but nourishing food..that tides over the tuckerless white man to the next out-camp. 1946A. P. Harper Mem. Mountains & Men xvi. 162 We were left almost ‘tuckerless’ on Christmas Day.
▪ II. tucker, v.1 New England colloq.|ˈtʌkə(r)|
[f. tuck v.1; cf. tucked ppl. a. 2.]
trans. To tire, to weary; usually tucker out; esp. in pa. pple. tuckered out, worn out, exhausted. Hence ˈtucker n.2, the state of being tired out (Cent. Dict. 1891).
c1840Story of Bee Tree (Bartlett), I'm clear tuckered out with these young ones. 1853Turnover vi. 59 Set us to runnin', an' I could tucker him. 1862Lowell Biglow P., Mason & Slidell 12 Hard work is good an' wholesome, past all doubt; But 't ain't so, ef the mind gits tuckered out. 1879Howells L. Aroostook xxiii, She's tired to death—quite tuckered, you know. 1890S. W. Baker Wild Beasts I. 378 The old bear got regularly tuckered-out.
▪ III. tucker, v.2 colloq. (orig. and chiefly Austral. and N.Z.).|ˈtʌkə(r)|
[f. tucker n.1 6.]
1. trans. To supply with food. Also refl.
1899Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Jan. 14/3 An oldish widower with three sons..goes out to work with Son No. 1, leaving the other two mites at home to mind the ‘s'lection’ and tucker themselves. Old man comes home every month or so. 1920B. Cronin Timber Wolves 40, I got a friend hereabouts that tuckers me when I'm along this way. 1940E. I. Lord Old Westland xi. 137 He ‘tuckered’ many a down and out digger. 1964B. Wannan Fair Go, Spinner (1965) iv. 126 In those days, the shearers had to provide their own food supplies—‘to tucker themselves’, as they put it.
2. intr. To eat, to have a meal. Also with up.
1903H. B. King Bill's Philosophy 24 I'm sick of starving, when a cove can tucker free. 1940F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 143 We were counting on it [sc. a money order] to tucker up with in Bairnsdale. 1959H. P. Tritton Time means Tucker (1965) v. 64 We tuckered at the house and Mrs. Craig fed us till we couldn't eat another thing. 1963Weekly News (Auckland, N.Z.) 5 June 37/2 The cowboy was tuckering at the cookshop on his own. |