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Pleat vs Tucker - What's the difference?

pleat | tucker |

As a noun pleat

is (sewing) a fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric there are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.

As a verb pleat

is to form one or more in a piece of fabric or a garment.

As a proper noun tucker is

; equivalent to fuller.

pleat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
  • (botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
  • A plait.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form one or more in a piece of fabric or a garment.

    • Derived terms

    * accordion pleat * box pleat * inverted box pleat * knife pleat * pencil pleat * sunburst pleat

    Anagrams

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    tucker

    English

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
    • Derived terms
    * tucker out

    Noun

    (tucker)
  • (countable) One who or that which tucks.
  • * 1914 , US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conciliation, Arbitration, and Sanitation in the Dress and Waist Industry of New York City'', ''Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 145 , page 108,
    • Nature of Grievance:
  • *:: Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers', laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the ' tuckers on account of the recent controversy.
    • Determination:
  • *:: Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90.
  • (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
    • Derived terms
    * bush tucker

    See also

    * best bib and tucker * tucker fucker

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
  • * 1847 , , unnumbered page,
    • “And, ma?am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.”
    “I think I can explain that circumstance, sir. Agnes and Catherine Johnstone were invited to take tea with some friends at Lowton last Thursday, and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckers for the occasion.”
  • * 1869 , , 1903, page 57,
    • “Now let us go home, and never mind Aunt March to-day. We can run down there any time, and it?s really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers , when we are tired and cross.”
  • (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.