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Fit snugly
Answer for the clue "Fit snugly ", 4 letters:
tuck
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Word definitions for tuck in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. fit snugly into; "insert your ticket into the slot"; "tuck your shirtail in" [syn: insert ] make a tuck or several folds in; "tuck the fabric"; "tuck in the sheet" draw fabric together and sew it tightly [syn: gather , pucker ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tuck \Tuck\, n. [F. estoc; cf. It. stocco; both of German origin, and akin to E. stock. See Stock .] A long, narrow sword; a rapier. [Obs.] --Shak. He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length. --Sir W. Scot.
Usage examples of tuck.
Tuck looked to Abo, who seemed satisfied that the chief was backing him up.
Round the corner of the narrow street there came rushing a brace of whining dogs with tails tucked under their legs, and after them a white-faced burgher, with outstretched hands and wide-spread fingers, his hair all abristle and his eyes glinting back from one shoulder to the other, as though some great terror were at his very heels.
The lorislike adapid had a shield of thickened skin over bony bumps on its back, beneath which it now tucked its head.
Shriveled and brittle, more brown than red-it took a moment for Addle to recognize it as the little bouquet she had once confiscated from Gillian Duncan, tucked into her apron and forgotten.
She smiled, watching with satisfaction as Alec tucked in to her cooking.
I offered the flechette pistol to Alem but he gestured for me to keep it and showed me how to tuck it in one of the multiple sashes of the long, crimson robe.
Grandmother had swathed Alise snugly in a blanket, folding it around her and tucking in the ends as a mother swaddles a newborn babe.
I was appalled to discover what had happened, and even more so when I realized that I had tucked that print in the magazine myself.
I tucked myself back into my bra and, still clutching the aquamanile, buttoned up my tunic.
So he and the Armorer, despite their worry, anxiety and anger, tucked into the luncheon in the private room of the stern-wheeler.
Keeping pants tucked into socks, taking Atabrine tablets at mealtime, and spraying the island with DDT were all measures taken to help prevent the troops from getting infected.
Each carried two or three light javelins, and an atlatl tucked into a wide belt with a sheathed long-bladed knife.
Rohain tucked the feather inside a tapestry aulmoniere, fastened with buttons of jet.
And that the Auteur had apparently remained alcohol-free for the whole next three-and-a-half months, from Xmas of the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad to 1 April of the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar, the date of his suicide.
But Dutch Ton stood up, took the letter from Axel, who was looking a bit disappointed to have his services broken off so abruptly, and tucked the paper into a gap in his coat.