tucket

English

Etymology

From tuck (“a blow, a drum beat”), from Old French touchet (“stroke, blow”). Compare toccata. Compare also Middle French toquer from Old French *toquer (“to strike”).

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, bugles or similar.
   • 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, published 1623, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1883 June 30 – October 20, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published 1888, →OCLC:

     But just then the dull beat of many horses on the snow suddenly arose in the hollow ear of the night, and, with incredible swiftness, drew nearer and swelled louder. At the same time, answering tuckets repeated and repeated Hatch's call
     "Rally, rally!" cried Dick. "Rally upon me! Rally for your lives!"

References

• “tucket”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.