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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

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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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