Meaning

A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base..

Definitions by Sense

1. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
2. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
3. A small clump of trees or bushes.
4. (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
5. (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
6. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
7. (transitive) To form into tufts.
8. (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.

Example Sentences

“Not far from this place, there is a tuft of about a dozen of tall beeches […].”

A college tutor, or a nobleman’s toady, who appears one fine day as my right reverend lord, in a silk apron and a shovel-hat, and assumes benedictory airs over me, is still the same man we remember at Oxbridge, when he was truckling to the tufts, and bullying the poor undergraduates in the lecture-room.

Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.

His tufted cottage rising through the snow

They're never gonna get that Ottoman tufted in time!

Word Forms

• tufts
• tufting
• tufted

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When Should You Use Tuft?

Use tuft when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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