Definition of Tuck box

1. Noun. A box for storing eatables (especially at boarding school).


Definition of Tuck box

1. Noun. (chiefly British dated) a hamper, taken to boarding school by students, containing food (such as confectionery) provided by parents ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuck Box

tubulus seminifer rectus
tubus
tubus digestorius
tubus medullaris
tubus vertebralis
tucan
tucekite
tuch
tuches
tuchun
tuchuns
tuchus
tuck away
tuck box
tuck boxes
tuck in
tuck into
tuck shop
tuck shops
tuckable
tuckahoe
tuckahoes
tucked
tucked in
tucker
tucker-bag
tucker out

Literary usage of Tuck box

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. Mackenzie (1921)
"And day after day came cars from towns and farms and stations within two hundred miles, bringing tuck-box after tuck-box containing the choicest products of ..."

2. With the Incomparable 29th by A. H. Mure (1919)
"Between it and the tuck-box a man's wife had sent, we were able to show quite a spread, and a fine glitter and litter of tins piled on the floor of our ..."

3. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"... tuck box Tea Room (closed Mon. and Tues.; 831/624-6365), on Dolores Street near 7th Avenue. Rebuilt after a fire but still dollhouse-cutc, ..."

4. Carry on: Letters in War-time by Coningsby Dawson (1917)
"If you don't mind my suggesting it, I wouldn'ta bit mind a Christmas box at once — a schoolboy's tuck box. I wear the locket, cross, and tie all the time as ..."

5. A War Nurse's Diary: Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital (1918)
"... or better still/some kind mother sent a lovely "tuck-box" containing an English homemade cake! Then the men would find their hair needed a barber's ..."

6. William Conyngham Plunket: Fourth Baron Plunket and Sixty-first Archbishop by Frederick Douglas How (1900)
"His natural cheerfulness, however, seems to have asserted itself even before he had finished writing, for the letter ends with a suggestion that a tuck box ..."

7. Some Observations of a Foster Parent by John Charles Tarver (1897)
"Madam, when will you be persuaded to abandon the habit of sending that — I had almost used a bad word — tuck-box ? It is of no use forbidding it, ..."

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