tucket

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌkɪt/
Rhymes: -ʌkɪt
Hyphenation: tuck‧et

Noun

tucket (plural tuckets)

(music) A fanfare played on one or more trumpets.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, OCLC 606515358, Act IV, scene ii, page 86:
  [T]hen let the Trumpets ſound / The Tucket Sonuance, and the Note to mount: / For our approach ſhall ſo much dare the field, / That England ſhall couch downe in feare, and yeeld.

Etymology 2

Compare Italian tocchetto (“a ragout of fish, meat”), from tocco (“a bit, morsel”), Late Latin tucetum (“a thick gravy”), tuccetum (“a thick gravy”).

Noun

tucket (plural tuckets)

(obsolete) A steak; a collop.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tucket in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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