Etymology: < tuck v.¹, in various senses.

Etymology: < tuck v.²: compare Provençal toco, Italian tocco ‘a stroke or knock, also a stroke of a bell or clocke’, < toccare ‘to touch, hit, to smite, strike’ (Florio).

Etymology: apparently < French estoc in same sense, in Old French and Norman dialect étoc = Provençal estoc, Italian stocco, < German stock stick.

Etymology: See toque n.

Etymology: The forms of this verb fall into two distinct groups; the development of the senses also offers difficulties. The α-forms (with long vowel or diphthong) belong to senses 1, 2 and the earlier quots. under 3; the β-forms (with short vowel) to the rest of sense 3 and all the other senses, beginning in 14th cent. in senses 4, 7, and occurring in 15th cent. in sense 6 (and in one or two later instances in sense 2). The latter appear to correspond to Middle Low German tucken , tocken to draw, pull sharply or forcibly, Middle Dutch tocken , tucken , Old High German zocchôn , zucchen to move or remove with a jerk, snatch away, pluck, pull, modern German zucken to jerk, tuck, tug, das schwert zücken , to draw the sword. The shortening of the ū in Old English túcian , early Middle English tuke , etc. to u /ʌ/ in tuck is notable, but is paralleled by that of Old English súcan to suck v.; compare also duck v. from Middle English dūke(n.

Etymology: < Old Northern French toker, toquer, touker (a1400 in Godefroy Compl.) to touch, strike, northern form of toucher to touch v., = Provençal tocar , Spanish tocar , Portuguese tocar , Italian toccare ‘to touch, hit, to smite, strike’ (Florio): compare also tocsin n.