Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
tussock .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
tussock .
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- noun Archaic form of
tussock .
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Examples
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Having penetrated a considerable distance into this, and found a tussuck on which we could deposit our loads, though there was no place to sit, my companion went back for the rest of his pack.
The Maine Woods 1858
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Occasionally he will encounter a turtle selecting the choicest morsels, or a musk-rat resting on a tussuck.
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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We liked for awhile bounding from tussuck to tussuck, or resting on a green esker in the domain of the old academicians of Grattan's time; but 'tis pleasanter, after all, to tread the firm ground of our own archæologists.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829
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