Tuft

Definitions

1. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
2. A surname.
3. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
4. A small clump of trees or bushes.
5. A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
   historical
6. A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

““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.”

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