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tuckpoint

tuckpoint verb: to employ the technique of tuck pointing upon.

Verb

tuckpoint (third-person singular simple present tuckpoints, present participle tuckpointing, simple past and past participle tuckpointed)

  1. (transitive) To employ the technique of tuck pointing upon.
    • In the gangway, a younger but equally white trio, wearing clothes that have to be from Land's End or Eddie Bauer, cheerfully tuckpoints brick, while inside others are sawing, stripping wood, hammering, mixing cement.1988 November 18, Bryan Miller, “Love Amid the Rubble”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of tuckpoint

third-person singular presenttuckpoints
present participletuckpointing
past participletuckpointed
pasttuckpointed

Questions about tuckpoint

What does tuckpoint mean?
Tuckpoint means to employ the technique of tuck pointing upon.
What part of speech is tuckpoint?
Tuckpoint is a verb.
What is the past tense of tuckpoint?
The past tense of tuckpoint is tuckpointed.

Words near tuckpoint in the dictionary

  1. tucking out
  2. tucking up
  3. tuckings
  4. Tuckman
  5. Tuckombil
  6. tuckpoint
  7. tuckpointed
  8. tuckpointing
  9. tuckpoints
  10. tucks
  11. tucks away

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