Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TUCK, n. [Gaelic, tuca; W. twca; from the sense of cutting or thrusting, and the root of dock. The It. has stocco, and the Fr. estoc.]

1. A long narrow sword.
2. A kind of net. Carew.
3. [from the verb following.] In a ship, the part where the ends of the bottom planks are collected under the stern. Cyc.
4. A fold; a pull; a lugging. [See Tug.]