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  • noun Plural form of tucket.

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Examples

  • Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.

    October 7th, 2008 m_francis 2008

  • Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.

    Remembering Lepanto de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.

    Archive 2008-10-05 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.

    The Poem of Lepanto 2007

  • Speak for us, bells — speak for us, shrill-tongued tuckets.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.

    10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002

  • Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.

    Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

  • It is perhaps worth noting, that of the seven tuckets in the stage directions, only one, Goneril's, is supposed to be an English one.

    Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900

  • At the same time, answering tuckets repeated and repeated Hatch's call.

    The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • And there, amid the sounding of tuckets and the clash of armoured soldiery and horses continually moving forth, Dick and Joan sat side by side, tenderly held hands, and looked, with ever growing affection, in each other's eyes.

    The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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