tucker

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that tucks, especially an attachment on a sewing machine for making tucks.
2. n. A piece of linen or frill of lace formerly worn by women around the neck and shoulders.
3. v. Informal To make weary; exhaust.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A fuller.
2. n. One who or that which tucks.
3. n. A piece of linen, lace, or other delicate fabric, covering the neck and shoulders of a woman above the top of the bodice. Its form varied greatly at different times from the middle of the seventeenth till the middle of the eighteenth century; it was sometimes drawn close with a string passed through a hem at the top and sometimes was merely arranged like a kerchief, the two ends being crossed and tucked in. It was also sometimes a narrow ruffle. In its latest form the tucker is a kerchief or other piece of thin material covering the shoulders and neck loosely above the edge of the bodice, often merely a frill or fold in the neck of a high waist. Compare modesty-piece.
4. n. Food: same as tuck, n., 8.
5. n. Hence Work by which a miner is hardly able to make a living.
6. To tire; weary; cause to be tired or exhausted: commonly in the phrase tuckered out, as a fish by struggling on the hook.
7. n. A state of fatigue or exhaustion: as, to put one in a mighty tucker.

Wiktionary

1. v. To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
2. n. countable One who or that which tucks.
3. n. uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand Food.
4. n. countable Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
2. n. A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.
3. n. Prov. Eng. A fuller.
4. n. Slang or Colloq. Daily food; meals; also, food in general.
5. v. Colloq. U. S. To tire; to weary; -- usually with out.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a sewer who tucks
2. n. United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939)
3. v. wear out completely
4. n. a detachable yoke of linen or lace worn over the breast of a low-cut dress
5. n. United States vaudevillian (born in Russia) noted for her flamboyant performances (1884-1966)