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tuck  verb Past tense and past participle of take. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland; takened (at take v A3d) chiefly South”]

1861 Poteet CW Letters (Aug 7) gineral Mcgrooder has tuck 10 thousand men down there And is agoing to attact newport news. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 200 I ain’t never tuk money from company. 1937 Hall Coll (Bradley Fork NC) I allowed [the deer] might a tuck the black tongue and died, just like it tuck the cattle. 1997 GSMNPOHP 5:19 It tuck us a day to go from Cades Cove to Maryville.

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