Meanings
verbtuckpoint (third-person singular simple present tuckpoints, present participle tuckpointing, simple past and past participle tuckpointed)
present singular third person tuckpoints · participle present tuckpointing · participle past tuckpointed · past tuckpointed
- transitiveTo employ the technique of tuck pointing upon.
In the gangway, a younger but equally white trio, wearing clothes that have to be from Land's End or Eddie Bauer, cheerfully tuckpoints brick, while inside others are sawing, stripping wood, hammering, mixing cement.
1988 November 18, Bryan Miller, “Love Amid the Rubble”, in Chicago Reader
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APA
tuckpoint. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tuckpoint
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“tuckpoint.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tuckpoint. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tuckpoint,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tuckpoint.
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