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tufting

tufting is the present participle and gerund of tuft.

Noun

tufting (plural tuftings)

  1. A tuft.
    • We checked out a large selection of Native handicrafts, including mukluks made of seal or reindeer skin and lined with fur, medicine spirit stones, and moose hair tuftings.2012, Herb Williams, North to Alaska with a No-Account Cat
  2. A type of stitching passing through a quilt or mattress to hold the filling in place. See tuft for images.

Meaning of tuft

Verb

tuft (third-person singular simple present tufts, present participle tufting, simple past and past participle tufted)

  1. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
    • His tufted cottage rising through the snowa. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To form into tufts.
  3. (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
    • They're never gonna get that Ottoman tufted in time!2017 December 2, “The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!” (0:13 from the start), in DuckTales, season 1, episode 3
  4. (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.

See all 10 meanings of tuft

Forms of tufting

pluraltuftings

Questions about tufting

What does tufting mean?
Tufting means a tuft.
What is tufting the present participle and gerund of?
Tufting is the present participle and gerund of tuft.
What part of speech is tufting?
Tufting is a noun.
What is the plural of tufting?
The plural of tufting is tuftings.

Words near tufting in the dictionary

  1. tuftier
  2. tufties
  3. tuftiest
  4. tuftily
  5. tuftiness
  6. tufting
  7. tuftings
  8. tuftless
  9. tuftlet
  10. tuftlets
  11. tuftlike

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