English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌkɪt/
• Rhymes: -ʌkɪt
• Hyphenation: tuck‧et

Noun

tucket ‎(plural tuckets)

1. (music) A fanfare played on one or more trumpets.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, OCLC 606515358, Act IV, scene ii, page 86:

     [T]hen let the Trumpets ſound / The Tucket Sonuance, and the Note to mount: / For our approach ſhall ſo much dare the field, / That England ſhall couch downe in feare, and yeeld.

Etymology 2

Compare Italian tocchetto ‎(“a ragout of fish, meat”), from tocco ‎(“a bit, morsel”), Late Latin tucetum ‎(“a thick gravy”), tuccetum ‎(“a thick gravy”).

Noun

tucket ‎(plural tuckets)

1. (obsolete) A steak; a collop.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)