tuckern.1
/ˈtʌkə/, U.S. /ˈtəkər/ 1. One whose occupation is the fulling and dressing of cloth; a fuller; a cloth-finisher. Obsolete exc. dialect. Perhaps originally one who burled or teased the cloth. tucker's earth, fuller's earth.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > one who
waulkereOE
fullerOE
waulkster1355
tucker1388
cloth-thicker?1518
thicker1520
waulk miller1753
plash-miller1822
1273 Hundred Rolls, Dorset Roger le Tukere.
13.. Fine Rolls Nicholas le Tokere.]
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Kings xviii. 17 The water cundijt of the hiȝere cisterne,..in the weie of the fullere, [gloss] ethir toukere [1382 the fullers feeld].
c1475 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 285 A ordynaunce, for spynners, carders, wevers, also, Ffor toukers, dyers, and schermyn.
1496 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 344 To my wevers and tokers thorow the towne xij d a pece.
1507 Will of Alice Abadam (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 160 Tucker's schers.
1545 Bibliotheca Eliotæ Gnafos, a tesyll, whiche toukars do vse.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1231 [Crœsus] caught one of the nobles,.. and within a fullers mill all to beclawed and mangled him with tuckers cards and burling combs.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ii. 4 Tuckers or Fullers Earth.
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 174 Where errant pedlers, mercinarie slaues, Tinkers, and Tookers and such idle knaues.
1636 in E. Owen Catal. MSS. relating to Wales in Brit. Mus. (1908) 724 Ground for the erection of..tentors or tucker's rackes.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xviii. 202 Cloth-workers, tuckers and merchants.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. 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.
1888 F. T. Elworthy 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.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers > small
pincette?1533
twitcher?a1549
tweezers1654
pair of tuckers1658
tweezer1904
1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick 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 centuries; a frill of lace worn round the neck. best bib and tucker: see best bib and tucker at bib n.1 1b.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for chest or breast > types of > to cover woman's breast
stomach1473
patlet?a1505
partlet1515
stomacher1535
under-forebody1547
square1579
forepart1600
poitrel1607
half-shirt1661
tucker1688
modesty piece1713
modesty1731
modesty-bit1731
buffon1774
habit-shirt1780
chemisette1806
guimpe1850
bandeau1915
monobosom1970
bralette1973
modesty vest1974
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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.
1710 G. Baillie Househ. Bk. (1911) 204 For musline for night cloathes, ruffles, tuckers, etc. £3. 4. 0.
1793 ‘A. Pasquin’ Life Late Earl of Barrymore (ed. 3) 67 The Butcher's Lady thinks, that living in style, is manifested in putting on her best bib and tucker on holidays.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. vii. 110 Some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week..the rules limit them to one.
1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 37 An' put him his best bib-an-tucker on, an' went to look for a place for him.
1881 E. F. Poynter Among the Hills I. 150 Pulling out her white tucker round her white throat.
4. One who tucks; in quot. in sense 9.
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1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) at 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.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > sewing in other ways > one who
hemmer1483
baster1854
machinist1879
sewing machinist?1881
whipper?1881
machiner1888
tucker1905
Blake-sewer1921
overlocker1921
bar tacker1924
1905 Daily Chron. 11 Aug. 10/7 Machinists.., shirts and blouses; also a few vacancies for tuckers.
6. [ < tuck n.1 6 or tuck v.1 10.] The daily supply of food of a gold-digger or station-hand; rations, meals; also, food generally, victuals: = tuck n.1 6b to earn or make one's tucker, to earn merely enough to pay for one's keep. Australian and New Zealand slang.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]
meateOE
eatOE
foodOE
fodderOE
dietc1230
gista1290
victual1303
victualsa1375
preya1382
feedinga1398
pasturea1398
viancea1400
viandsc1400
livingc1405
meatingc1425
vitalyc1440
vianda1450
cates1461
vivers1536
viandry1542
viander1543
gut-matter1549
peck1567
belly-cheer1579
appast1580
manchet1583
chat1584
belly-metal1590
repasture1598
cibaries1599
belly-timber1607
belly-cheat1608
peckage1610
victuallage1622
keeping1644
vivresa1650
crib1652
prog1655
grub1659
beef1661
fooding1663
teething1673
eatablea1687
sunket1686
yam1788
chow-chow1795
keep1801
feed1818
grubbing1819
patter1824
ninyam1826
nyam1828
grubbery1831
tack1834
kai1845
mungaree1846
scoff1846
foodstuff1847
chuck1850
muckamuck1852
tuck1857
tucker1858
hash1865
nosh1873
jock1879
cake flour1881
chow1886
nosebag1888
stodge1890
food aid1900
tackle1900
munga1907
scarf1932
grubber1959
1858 Morning Chron. 31 Aug. (Farmer) Diggers, who have great difficulty in making their tucker at digging.
1864 J. C. Richmond Let. 12 May in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 111 It is very hard work humping your blankets and tucker.
1874 G. Walch Head over Heels 73 For want of more nourishing tucker, I believe they'd have eaten him.
1883 A. Forbes in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 606 A peer's son who is earning his ‘tucker’ as a station cook in New Zealand.
1898 M. Davitt Life & Progr. Australasia xl. 275 A pound of a week, including lodgings and ‘tucker’.
1911 W. 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.
1972 M. Shadbolt Strangers & Journeys iii. 43 Later Ned got the tucker cooking. It was stew and spud, like most nights.
Derivatives
ˈtuckerless adj. (Australian and New Zealand slang), without food.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > having no food
meatlessOE
fleshlessc1394
foodlessc1450
supperless1509
baitless1600
victless?1615
provisionless1781
cornless1828
appleless1830
victual-less1831
bread-and-butterless1850
faggotless1867
tuckerless1937
1937 E. 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.
1946 A. P. Harper Mem. Mountains & Men xvi. 162 We were left almost ‘tuckerless’ on Christmas Day.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tuckerv.1
/ˈtʌkə/, U.S. /ˈtəkər/ New England colloquial.
transitive. To tire, to weary; usually tucker out; esp. in past participle tuckered out, worn out, exhausted.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
wearyc825
asadc1306
ateyntc1325
attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
heavy1382
fortireda1400
methefula1400
afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
tavert1535
wearied1538
fatigated1552
awearya1555
forwearied1562
overtired1567
spenta1568
done1575
awearied1577
stank1579
languishinga1586
bankrupt?1589
fordone1590
spent1591
overwearied1592
overworn1592
outworn1597
half-dead1601
back-broken1603
tiry1611
defatigated1612
dog-wearya1616
overweary1617
exhaust1621
worn-out1639
embossed1651
outspent1652
exhausted1667
beaten1681
bejaded1687
harassed1693
jaded1693
lassate1694
defeata1732
beat out1758
fagged1764
dog-tired1770
fessive1773
done-up1784
forjeskit1786
ramfeezled1786
done-over1789
fatigued1791
forfoughten1794
worn-up1812
dead1813
out-burnta1821
prostrate1820
dead beat1822
told out1822
bone-tireda1825
traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
drained1855
floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
dead-beaten1875
down1885
tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
buggered-up1893
ground-down1897
played1897
veal-bled1899
stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
c1840 Story of Bee Tree I'm clear tuckered out with these young ones.
1853 Turnover vi. 59 Set us to runnin', an' I could tucker him.
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. ii. 34 Hard work is good an' wholesome, past all doubt; But 't ain't so, ef the mind gets tuckered out.
1879 W. D. Howells Lady of Aroostook xxiii She's tired to death—quite tuckered, you know.
1890 S. W. Baker Wild Beasts I. 378 The old bear got regularly tuckered-out.
Derivatives
ˈtucker n.2 the state of being tired out ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [noun] > state or condition of being weary or exhausted
fatigation?1504
wearisomeness1560
overtiring1598
weariednessa1617
wearihood1883
tucker1891
jadedness1896
1891 Cent. Dict. Tucker.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tuckerv.2
/ˈtʌkə/, U.S. /ˈtəkər/, Australian English /ˈtʌkə/, New Zealand English /ˈtʌkə/ colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand).
1. transitive. To supply with food. Also reflexive.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > supply with provisions
victualc1380
meat1568
provant1599
provision1604
catera1616
bread1797
grub1819
ration1834
vegetate1846
tucker1899
feed1904
1899 Bulletin (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.
1920 B. Cronin Timber Wolves 40 I got a friend hereabouts that tuckers me when I'm along this way.
1940 E. I. Lord Old Westland xi. 137 He ‘tuckered’ many a down and out digger.
1964 B. 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. intransitive. To eat, to have a meal. Also with up.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]
eatc825
to break breadeOE
baitc1386
feeda1387
to take one's repast?1490
to take repast1517
repast1520
peck?1536
diet1566
meat1573
victual1577
graze1579
manger1609
to craw it1708
grub1725
scoff1798
browse1818
provender1819
muckamuck1853
to put on the nosebag1874
refect1882
restaurate1882
nosh1892
tucker1903
to muck in1919
scarf1960
snack1972
1903 H. B. King Bill's Philos. 24 I'm sick of starving, when a cove can tucker free.
1940 F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 143 We were counting on it [sc. a money order] to tucker up with in Bairnsdale.
1959 H. 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.
1963 Weekly News (Auckland) 5 June 37/2 The cowboy was tuckering at the cookshop on his own.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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